Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem

GoldenDoge@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. As always.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk, man. Epic very well could have come up with an app so bad that it became a serious vulnerability for the Apple App Store. This could be about the money. It could be about some Apple Engineers making a couple of airbooks live up to their names, trying to plug all the wholes the shitty Epic DRM was creating. Could be both.

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  • Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Get out of here with this whataboutism.

    As far as companies go, Apple is the one being slowly brought back under the law of a free market, after doing gray / illegal stuff for decades.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Get out of here with this whataboutism.

      Epic’s DRM patches routinely break games and open up security vulnerabilities. This isn’t even something new, its been a problem with the company for decades.

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      • Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While I definitely don’t know everything about Epic Games, but my (quick) googling suggests that they do almost no DRM (or just piggy-back on steam, which is minimal DRM). The individual developers are responsible for DRM. Is this not true?

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      • Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Both things can be true to be honest

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anything is possible when you’re not constrained by what is actually something that can really happen. Namely, epic could even blow up some of Apple’s headquarter campuses by uploading a bomb to the iOS app store because of all the ‘wholes’ in the epic drm.

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is really whole some

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love how you’re so confident about this despite clearly knowing nothing about programming.

    It is not possible for an app to be a threat to the entire app store because all of the code is sandboxed. Please either read up on app development or shut up

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also the app doesn’t run on the app store, so it cannot affect it. The store serves the app as a package that is then downloaded and executed on the user device

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