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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 4 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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rvz ◴[13 Aug 20 20:13 UTC] No.24148127[source]▶
Even worse. Imagine if the World Wide Web was not open and you had to go through a closed WWW like AOL and websites were "under review" by the providers and would take a 30% cut of your revenues or clicks on your web app or subscription service and websites require going only through that provider.

Thank goodness that wasn't the case.

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Seirdy ◴[13 Aug 20 20:15 UTC] No.24148178[source]▶
It could be the case if AMP grows dominant; given the market share of Google Search, it could be enough to create a controlled (er, "curated") web in a similar spirit.
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IgorPartola ◴[13 Aug 20 21:34 UTC] No.24149634[source]▶
Fuck AMP. The fact that there is no way to turn it off is one of the main reasons I don't use Google on my phone. DDG often has slightly poorer results, but I often find answers to my questions in Reddit threads and Reddit has a horrible mobile experience. Between AMP and them throwing 15 different popups at me to get their app (why would I want their single tab app?!?!), it's borderline unusable.
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1. m-p-3 ◴[13 Aug 20 22:38 UTC] No.24150466[source]▶
I'm still pissed that Mozilla handled the Firefox Fenix transition so badly. I had a perfectly working Redirect AMP to HTML [1] addon on mobile, and now you can only install a set of whitelisted addon for the moment. Until then, the Firefox experience is significantly degraded on Android.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/amp2html/

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2. esperent ◴[14 Aug 20 02:21 UTC] No.24152465[source]▶
Unless you keep using the old version of Firefox, which is still available and still works perfectly.
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3. Wowfunhappy ◴[14 Aug 20 02:39 UTC] No.24152604[source]▶
Does Fenix let you install userscripts? You could use https://github.com/bentasker/RemoveAMP.

This is what I use on my Jailbroken iPhone.

4. m4rtink ◴[14 Aug 20 04:06 UTC] No.24153227[source]▶
The thing is - will that work longer term ? Mozilla will not maintain the old codebase anymore and unless someone else takes it over (unlikely) tje old version can become insecure & missing new APIs. All that while Mozilla still not providing the missing features for the new version.