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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

By their own quote of the law, there’s no wording that would stipulate that apple has to allow epic to have their third party app in apples app store. Just that they would have to essentially allow it to be side loaded, or installable in some way onto the phone.

But really, why should and app store have to foot the server bill for another company to get to install an app intended to make money while giving none to the company that owns and operates an app store?

I sure as hell wouldn’t.

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GekkoState@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did you read the article?

Epic is not trying to get their 3rd party app in apples app store.

Epic can’t create a 3rd party app store because Apple revoked their developer license. This means any app epic creates can’t be sideloaded because it will never be signed by apple.

Apples new rules require any 3rd party app store to pay apple $0.50 per install (there is no million app install requirement for 3rd party app stores). So apple would still make money off epics app store if they allowed it.
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