Keep it up Apple, keep pissing off the gamers. Shrink that monopoly. Seems pretty fucking insane that they can stop an app from working remotely. If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can order Apple to disable its use. I hope the degoogling Android trend takes off further.
Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store
Submitted 19 hours ago by dwazou@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
kayazere@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can order Apple to disable its use. I hope the degoogling Android trend takes off further.
Apple already did this in Hong Kong to appease China. They took down apps that were used by protesters to coordinate, they even modified AirDrop so it couldn’t be easily used for ad hoc communication.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 hours ago
GaMeRs aren’t going to do shit to Apple lol. Fortnite hasn’t been on iPhones for years and Apple hasn’t been hurt one bit.
If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can……
lol
Ulrich@feddit.org 18 hours ago
It’s actually Epic’s fault this time. They pulled it from the EU app store.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Plus nobody playing Fortnite on an iPhone anyway
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
I have a very particular set of skills…
scarabic@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Imagine if now, at the height of their success, Apple finally decided, for the first time, to alienate the core audience they’ve always shown undying dedication to: gamers /s
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
There’s also Linux phones
Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
this might be enough for people to switch phones to android, you dont mess with peoples addiction to games.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 hours ago
Fortnite hasn’t been on iOS for like 5 years already at this point, anyone who was going to change ecosystem because of Fortnite is long gone.
There are so many platforms that Fortnite is on that it not being on iOS isn’t an actual issue.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
They’ll be right back unless they’re downright chemically addicted. Android is a shovelware trash operating system.
Like for expample the Bluetooth quick tile sorting by most recently paired Instead of most recently connected (and no its not rearrangeable without repairing devices)
fluxx1@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Wow, what a short-sighted view. Android, despite its many shortcomings, gives you orders of magnitude more freedom in almost every way imaginable. And none of its shortcomings are blocking you from using it, rather more or less annoy you.
MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I get not liking android but your best example being that you can’t sort Bluetooth devices is just ???
woelkchen@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed. The walled garden is core to Apple’s product philosophy. It’s not like everybody was expecting Apple to be super open and inclusive with anything and then be taken by surprise from the Fortnite situation. Even before they deprecated open standards because their own tech is supposedly evolving faster and are better integrated.
People wanting to play Fortnite on phones can just get a reasonably specced Android phone and install EGS next to Play Store with just a few taps.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Eh, not really. I buy Apple because I’ve had 3 Android phones crap out on me literally days after their warranty died. I got tired of that shit, I paid a bit more and got myself an iPhone 13. It still works as good as it did on the first day. While I do know that Apple devices have a set death day (when they stop getting security updates), I believe I generate far less e-waste by buying 1 iPhone every 7 or 8 years instead of buying a brand new Android every year.
As far as Fortnite goes, I don’t care for the game itself, but I am happy that they fought Apple in court and gave developers the freedom to implement third party IAP, albeit I have no use for it as I only use my phone for phone calls and messaging and the occasional web browsing.
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Android is an operating system. It has nothing to do with crappy hardware.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
What a disingenuous arguement.
You said you paid more for an iPhone, which means you were buying cheap Android phones and then complaining that they don’t last. Well yeah, because they’re cheap.
You can buy Android phones that make iPhones look like the budget option if you want to, I’m not advising it but it’s possible.
bork@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
buying a brand new android every year
We’ve had wildly different experiences with these companies, for what it’s worth.
I bought an iPhone X back when they were new, and had to get it replaced twice within the first 6 months because of hardware failures.
Conversely, I kept my Pixel 3 (from 2019) until last year.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I had a MacBook, while I was typing on it, suddenly just turn off, never to be turned on again. Took it to the store, they told me it was cheaper to buy a new one.
theherk@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed.
I get that this crowd generally thinks Apple is hellspawn, in spite of also having devices made by other, also shitty corporations, but this is just a dumb thing to say. They’re just devices. Yes some of us prefer them. I didn’t switch after every mainline Android phone from G1 through Nexus and Pixel because I wanted a paternal imposition of allowed apps. Stupid fucking comment.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Stupid fucking comment.
I was merely stating in simple words what Apple’s product is and that their customers respond to exactly that. You choice of words shows that a loud fraction of their user base is a cult, though.
0xD@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
No, apple is a piece of shit for not allowing you to flash whatever firmware you want on there. It makes my job harder and no one wants to do ios pentesting because of that.
I hope that apple burns to hell.
Zak@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The DMA should never have allowed Apple any oversight of apps distributed outside their store.
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I don’t think this is distributed outside their store, flashlight man.
Zak@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Epic was planning to distribute it in its own store in the EU.
flashlight man.
I’ll take it.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Epic isn’t wrong about Apples payment requirements being BS, but Epic also isn’t exactly a hero here.
Will be interesting to see how this pissing match plays out over time.
Should you be able to use other payment providers outside of apple pay YES!
Should you be able to install other APP stores on an iPhone? Not sure.
middlemanSI@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Why shouldn’t you be able to install whatever you want? Maybe I’m missing something…
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
You are missing the gene that makes one an apple fanBoi apparently.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I am in the camp that there is a benefit to the managed store. Since moving family members to iOS devices the number of times they have loaded malware or asked me for help installing ANYTHING dropped to zero.
Should techies be able to side load if they want? Sure, should that be a primary install method? No.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 hours ago
You’re missing that you don’t make the OS, and the OS maker doesn’t have to make a way for you to be able to install whatever you want. Sony doesn’t let you install Switch games on your PS5, do they? Should they be forced to?
land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Again???
MITM0@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
SailFishOS looking real good right now
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 hours ago
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.
tranceFusion@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
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.
0xD@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
Lol, siding with apple here is a bootlicker thing to do.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 hours ago
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?