Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
their iPhone is preventing them from playing the game
Epic are the ones preventing Fortnite from being available on iPhones. They have no one to blame but themselves for the way they planned to intentionally break the App Store rules and had a lawsuit ready to go when it was rightly removed from the store.
They fucked around and found out.
Funny someone with your username would advocate for people who outright bought a piece of hardware to be controlled by the manufacturer in terms of what they can do with their device, while also forcefully taking an enormous cut of any transactions involving it.
Epic has forced Apple to give users more options, and that’s a good thing. Epic are usually the bad guys - this time they weren’t.
Epic intentionally broke the rules of the contract they agreed to, and had a lawsuit ready to go as soon as Apple rightfully removed their game from the store over the breach of contract. Epic were not the good guys.
You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.
You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.
You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.
You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.
You’re looking at this the wrong way.
We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships adb that explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.
What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to to nothing more than “because we said so”.
That’s fine to want, but you’re not entitled to it and never should be.
Lol, siding with apple here is a bootlicker thing to do.
You guys need to find a new name to call people.
Epic were the bad guys in this scenario. Why are you licking the boot of epic?
Why is anybody licking big corporate boot in the first place? How does that benefit you?
I wasn’t “licking big corporate boot” in the first place.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I have a genuine question:
How does arguing in support of arguably bad business practices in general benefit you?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
What are the “arguably bad business practices” here? I would argue that Epic pissing off the manufacturer of the most popular phones in the world, which have over 90% of all in-app purchase $$$$ spent in the mobile world, is bad business practice - not even arguably.
As for anything “benefiting me”……am I not allowed an opinion or to express it unless it’s echo chamber aligned? Is it only allowed if it ignores all logic and is just mindless anger against [insert big corporation name here]?