Seems anticompetitive
Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem
Submitted 8 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 months ago
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
“Seems” really isn’t necessary. It’s apple.
Tramort@programming.dev 8 months ago
“threat” is just competition, right?
Fine 'em, EU!
filister@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The question is when the US government is going to take any measures against them.
kaitco@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“More recently, you have described our DMA compliance as ‘hot garbage,’ a ‘horror show,’ and a ‘devious new instance of Malicious Compliance.’ And you have complained about what you called ‘Junk Fees’ and ‘Apple taxes.”
I’m sorry, but this exchange is just plain hilarious to me. 🤣 It reads like a recording between a couple going through an acrimonious divorce.
Voytrekk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t particularly care for Epic, but this is some gatekeeping bullshit from Apple.
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same old…
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I don’t even care. All the kids crying for an iPhone so their texts show up the “right” color don’t deserve to play fortnite. Iphone gained such a large market share that there’s very little higher end competition left amongst android phones. If the market weren’t so lopsided, maybe we’d get options beside a Samsung s line or an Asus rog. I don’t want to give up my micro sd card slot or battery access.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Apple just isn’t good at playing this “control an entire industry” game as its contemporaries like Microsoft.
It’s “embrace, extend, extinguish”. But apples play seems to be more like the five stages of grief.
- denial, the eu won’t ever force us to do a thing, we’re Apple! They wouldn’t.
- anger, <- we are here
- barginning
- depression
- acceptance.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’ll never reach acceptance. Maybe court-ordered compliance, but never true acceptance.
dan1101@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The court rulings better cover every way Apple could avoid compliance.
HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I love seeing these two assholes fight.
I think this is good though. Another data point of Apple not allowing true competition on their platform. Oh, you want your own app store? BAM! You’re banned. Especially now that it seemed Epic was gonna comply with this last set of ridiculous rules.
We might get a proper way to sideload if they keep this up. We’ll see…
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
The EU has already told Apple they have to allow side loading of apps. Probably won’t help anyone in the United States but maybe you can get California on it, as they seem to like copying EU law.
HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I think it’s only third party appstores for now. That’s why I’m hoping this will encourage stricter regulation
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish them both the worst of luck.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Didn’t Epic just win an anticompetitive lawsuit against Google, off the back of losing a similar anticompetitive lawsuit against Apple?
Methinks they’ll be coming back for round 2, and this will be the provocation that will give Epic a win. Regardless of your thoughts and feelings on Epic, I think we can agree that Apple is a shitty company and they could do with an L.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Every company you mentioned in your comment is a shitty company that could do with an L.
GoldenDoge@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
What’s wrong Apple? Afraid of some actual competition?
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yes. As always.
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.
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.
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.
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
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Please eat each other.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If Apple really said their decision was partly based on Epic calling them out on their DMA plans then it seems it should be a pretty easy win in court. Apple would literally be meaning “if you say bad things about us we’ll cancel your account.” I know private companies aren’t bound by the first amendment but surely that can’t be legal.
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I dunno. Isn’t this kind of like being banned from a sport? Nobody has a right to participate in someone else’s game.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Press release from Epic including the correspondence between Epic and Apple: epicgames.com/…/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer…
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love the rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth.
anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 8 months ago
turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
EU comission just said NEIN.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Heartwarming