Apple shut down Epic Games developer account and hopes for its iOS games store

07 March 2024
Apple initially granted Epic Games a developer account but later questioned Epic's contractual commitments under the developer agreement.

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DaFink, 11 Mar 2024Companies sign up to such things all the time. And time ... moreThat's true.

    Anonymous, 11 Mar 2024Please buy yourself some brain. Or… actually read what is g... moreWhat do you expect me or others to do according to your context? What have you done about this? I don't have an iPhone and I don't have intentions to purchase one. Also, I don't like playing games. But, what I've said is true. May I ask you to be legible about what do you want to convey.

      ThankGodItsFriday, 11 Mar 2024My point is, why would Epic Games be a part of the Coalitio... moreCompanies sign up to such things all the time.

      And time will tell how committed they actually are, cause EpIc’s past isn’t exactly stain free…..

        DaFink, 08 Mar 2024What about it? My point is, why would Epic Games be a part of the Coalition for App Fairness if they are trying to, as you put it, BE the system? It doesn't seem to make sense that they would do this, then become a monopoly like Google and Apple.

        I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility entirely, but IMHO I don't think that would be in their best interest.

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          Subramanian CN, 10 Mar 2024At the same time isn't it right that Apple never force... morePlease buy yourself some brain. Or… actually read what is going on, what Apple is doing and what are the odds they are putting everyone on just to keep a monopoly before posting a parrot propoganda comment. I mean, no “Monopoly” will give a shit about users or developers since none has an alternative and have to suck it up. What EU has done is giving everyone an option which allowed everyone act together. It certainly won’t change anything on my iPhone since I’m not in EU. Time to say hi to good old glasses.

            Carol-, 10 Mar 2024Not when their actions affect others businesses, and consum... moreWell you do the same thing again; talking Civil rights. I talk here only as a consumer. There are plenty of differences between Civil rights and Consumer rights.

              Subramanian CN, 10 Mar 2024At the same time isn't it right that Apple never force... moreNot when their actions affect others businesses, and consumers wallets. A good example would be spotify, this guys exist before apple even had a smartphone, and way before apple actually made a smartphone, as the first two iphones where nothing but featurephones with a touchscreen. Yet apple try to drive their greedy truck over sportify, and take their customers in a very anti-competitive manner, monopolistic actions, while charging the customer for more. That is where EU parliament, and not only, needs to slap apple with a lot of fines, and force them to stop their practices, so you see you cannot just ignore the devil, you need to fight it.

                Anonymous, 08 Mar 2024Apple: How to tell people that we still want to dominate ev... moreAt the same time isn't it right that Apple never forces anyone to buy their products/services. We want everything in our world according to our own conditions, tastes, ... Everyone feels that Apple dominates but, the right answer is that there is no one to compete with them. They have created their own world and welcomes those who need them. Isn't it possible to ignore them completely?

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                  Anonymous, 08 Mar 2024You're wrong there. Car manufacturers didn't prov... moreDo not try to distract with strange comparisons. If I bought an iPhone in Europa, it would belong to me with everything on it, independent of whatever Apple asked me to agree on when I start the phone the first time.
                  Got it? Ok, then let us move on!

                  If the Uber case is too complicated for you, just take a taxi driver who has bought his own car.
                  It is my car as a taxi driver. I don’t want to pay 30% just because my car manufacturer asks the fuel companies to share 30% of the revenue with them.
                  If I want to buy a tyre, I don’t want to pay 30% extra to be passed to my car manufacturer. Things like that just don’t exist.

                    HyperionBurn, 08 Mar 2024hmmm itd be interesting to see that happen nglI'm sure Huawei and Google can fill in the gaps.

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                      They won't let us flex Fortnite on ipads
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                        Mills, 07 Mar 2024EU will probably find them lol, Apple is probably gonna get... morehmmm itd be interesting to see that happen ngl

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                          Apple: How to tell people that we still want to dominate everything without telling people that we still want to dominate everything.

                            Anonymous, 08 Mar 2024You're wrong there. Car manufacturers didn't prov... moreThe d..best comparison ever. First of all, because nobody would buy a Hause in your conditions, probably only apple users, they seem to not think further then renting stuff even when they buy them. Second, because it makes no sense. If you want to do a real world comparison then it would sound like this. Imagine you buy a Hause and the land it stays on, where you like it, from whoever you like and whoever has it with a price you come to accept. Versus buying a Hause from whoever you like but beying forced to pay for the land to the same third party, that is an absolute monopolist ahole, that ran over all the small land-owners and now sets the prices as he sees fit. So no matter what you buy and where you want to buy, you are forced to pay to the same ahole a lot of money because this is what he wants, and also forced to give him a spare key because he will do the decor and whatever he wants in your hause, while you are not allowed to change nothing because even tough you pay and payed a tone of money for it, it is not really your hause, as long as it is on his lands. Thats your apple in a nutshell. And this is only the small part of the whole story, so before doing comparisons, learn whom you're dealing with.

                              ThankGodItsFriday, 08 Mar 2024Then what about the Coalition? https://appfairness.orgWhat about it?

                                DaFink, 07 Mar 2024You admire them but don't support them 🤔 Epic aren&... moreThen what about the Coalition? https://appfairness.org

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                                  JLC, 07 Mar 2024It is not about protecting their child. I mentioned that al... moreYou're wrong there. Car manufacturers didn't provide a platform for taxi driver to do business. Ask yourself, why Uber takes some % for the driver earnings?? Apple case is the same as Uber. Because Apple provide the platform. Let say you build a house in your own land and sell it to others. Just the house, not the land. Will you be letting the buyer staying in your land for free?? 🙄😏

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                                    potato4k, 07 Mar 2024Haha, well why didn't Apple just do this from day 1? I... moreTencent is investor behind numerous big and indie studio games in the world though. Like I know the dirty mindset is coming from what US is doing against other countries like listening to world leaders through iphone and reading their message passed using US tech company but Epic is still an American company.

                                      ThankGodItsFriday, 07 Mar 2024Whoa, that's harsh. Apple seems to still be anti-compe... moreYou admire them but don't support them 🤔

                                      Epic aren't looking to fight the system, they simply want to become the system.

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                                        Anonymous, 07 Mar 2024So, basically you mean that you have to surrender your own ... moreYou talk about logic while applying a completely overboard hypothetical scenario that has nothing to do with what is being talked about. What a waste of words.

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