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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 1 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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dessant ◴[13 Aug 20 20:48 UTC] No.24148841[source]▶
People often accept restrictions on their freedom, but that does not mean those limitations aren't harmful.

We should be able to install what we want on a general purpose computing device. You can already see the Apple mentality creeping into other companies like Mozilla, who suddenly find it acceptable to limit user freedom for questionable reasons, and the normalization of stripped user liberties that Apple champions is worrying.

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1. ntsplnkv2 ◴[13 Aug 20 22:02 UTC] No.24150027[source]▶
Honestly, where is the actual harm done here?

Again, this is just out of touch. Call it what it is - software companies want more money and want to use the market apple created for every last one of them for free.