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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: 0.361s | 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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a-p-o ◴[13 Aug 20 23:59 UTC] No.24151476[source]▶
I recently learned Google Chrome does something similar with browser extensions[1]. You cannot[2] install .crx files that have not been published to the Chrome Web Store.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chro...

[2] Unless you're using Linux or the enterprise version of the browser.

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1. m4rtink ◴[14 Aug 20 01:51 UTC] No.24152290[source]▶
Sadly Mozilla seems to do something similar with Firefox, likely as another round of copying the most stupid Chrome decisions.

The recently released new "stable" version of Firefox for Android that supports just 9 specific extensions at the moment might be actually even worse than Chrome.