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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 2 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lordleft ◴[13 Aug 20 20:04 UTC] No.24147974[source]▶
Imagine if Microsoft did this on PCs. a) prohibiting the installation of non-windows store software (sideloading) and b) insisting that all purchases done via apps give them a 30% cut. I think this is a ridiculous practice on the behalf of Apple.
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recklesstodd ◴[13 Aug 20 20:20 UTC] No.24148292[source]▶
Valve is anticipating such move in a near future and investing in gaming on Linux.
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immigrantsheep ◴[13 Aug 20 20:35 UTC] No.24148605[source]▶
AFAIK Valve already tried the whole Linux as a gaming platform thing and gave up completely a few months ago.
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1. winter_blue ◴[13 Aug 20 21:42 UTC] No.24149755[source]▶
This is completely false. They've been contributing massively to the gaming scene on Linux, especially with Proton – a more fine-tuned version of Wine, that makes playing Windows games on Linux seamless and easy.
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2. m4rtink ◴[14 Aug 20 01:54 UTC] No.24152304[source]▶
And all these improvements trickle down to the respective upstream prkjects and default version. For example Fedora 33 should use dxvk for directx games by default, all at least partially thanks to the relenteless work of Valve. :-)