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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 3 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Findeton ◴[13 Aug 20 20:11 UTC] No.24148096[source]▶
I don't think this should be regulated at all. Apple should be able to impose their rules in their systems. Let's be clear about this, if people are choosing to buy these black-box closed handheld computing devices, there are consequences that come with that choice.
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swiley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:29 UTC] No.24148471[source]▶
Apple is more than welcome to put whatever rules they want on their systems. My phone is not their system though, it’s mine! If I want to run tmux/fetchmail/ocamlc on it then it’s my problem not theirs!
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Findeton ◴[13 Aug 20 20:38 UTC] No.24148658[source]▶
I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
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swiley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:40 UTC] No.24148710[source]▶
I would install desktop Linux on my iPhone if I could but there are no drivers in mainline and they work hard to lock the bootloader down (and before someone suggests android, the intention there is just as bad but tends to be less well executed and there still aren’t suitable drivers available.)
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Findeton ◴[13 Aug 20 20:47 UTC] No.24148827[source]▶
Well if your intention is to install Linux in your phone maybe iPhone is not the best choice.
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swiley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:53 UTC] No.24148944[source]▶
Give me a better choice and I’ll go buy it right now if it actually works.

Anything requiring a single android component goes in the “doesn’t actually work” category.

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1. __d ◴[13 Aug 20 21:34 UTC] No.24149629[source]▶
On what grounds are you demanding that Apple sell the product that you want to buy?

They sell products. Those products have well-known rules. If you don't like the rules, don't buy the product.

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2. 9HZZRfNlpR ◴[13 Aug 20 22:24 UTC] No.24150317[source]▶
This sounds like some gop talking point, embarrassing.
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3. __d ◴[16 Aug 20 22:29 UTC] No.24181925[source]▶
That's the nature of our society.

An argument can be made that it's morally wrong, but if you're going down that road, there's a lot of things should be morally more compelling than Apple's AppStore policies.