Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why people think Apple should be forced to allow Fortnite back on their store. It’s like saying Amazon should be forced to sell a product by companies that try to rip them off and break all their rules constantly so they can sue them.

  Epic aren’t a good company. Apple aren’t a good company. Neither of them however should be forced to allow products on their store that they don’t want to.

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Apple wouldn’t have to if they didn’t artificially prevent competitor app stores from being installed on iPhones. An app store is just software that tells the OS to install another piece of software. They are not complicated or hard to code, Apple just installs one with your phone and prevents any apps from being installed except through it, and then they refuse to host other app stores.

    This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.

    They claim they have to install every thing through their app store for security reasons and there’s no possible other way to build it (horseshit), so rightfully then, to prevent them from illegally tieing two unrelated products together, they have to host Epic on the App Store.

    And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.

    Apple charges mafia 30% of all software REVENUE in addition to their other anti-competitive bullshit. They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.

      Have you actually looked at the iPhones market share? They don’t have a monopoly, far from it - Android is the market leader in phone OS’s by a country mile.

      And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.

      Not at all. Epic have rules on what games can be hosted on the Epic Game Store too btw.

      They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large

      Apple don’t have a dominant platform position. They do not have a monopoly. They do not have to allow competitors to operate on their platform.

      Your entire post is based on an incorrect premise.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Apple should be forced to allow the owners of Apple devices to install whatever they want. But they’ve created an illegal, monopolistic, anti-competitive trust and they are abusing it to the full extent of their power.

    Forcing Apple to allow things on the app store is a remedy for Apple’s wrongdoing the same way as forcing Jason Voorhees to give his victims bandaids would be a remedy. The wrongdoing should not be tolerated in the first place.

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    • chrischryse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Question, would Apple be able to do that while still keeping their “being more secure than android” thing?

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So Apple should be forced to allow iPhone owners to install Win32 programs on their iPhones? PS5 games? So Sony should be forced to allow PS5 owners to install Switch games on their PS5s?

      Do you see how dumb that is?

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This would only work in a perfect capitalism but that’s not our reality. Once a company acquires status that can control and drive the society the society has the right to correct for that.

    Apple was too greedy to the point where courts have decided that their greed costs society more than society gains from Apple. There’s no philosophical binary formula here.

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  • gray@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A valid point, the main issue at hand is that the iPhone is locked down to Apple’s approved store - you can’t just install things like a regular computer. That’s really the core of the lawsuit regarding the insane 30% cut Apple forces on their mobile computing platform.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Apple PUNCHING the air rn

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• Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While I am unmoved, I agree that apple has been acting greedy as per usual in this situation

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• TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re both being pieces of shit.

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