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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 8 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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andreasley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:37 UTC] No.24148645[source]▶
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit [1] and published a Fortnite-themed parody of Apple's "1984" [2] to get some publicity for it.

[1] https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4

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ulfw ◴[14 Aug 20 03:23 UTC] No.24152926[source]▶
A PR stunt from Epic and everyone's falling for it.
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dmix ◴[14 Aug 20 03:26 UTC] No.24152955[source]▶
My favourite is trying to spin two billion dollar companies fighting over percentages as some “big brother” battle. I don’t remember this part of 1984.
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1. searchableguy ◴[14 Aug 20 04:02 UTC] No.24153195[source]▶
I feel like epic has more to show off soon. Apple rejected facebook, microsoft and google in the last 2 weeks when they were trying to get their game centres approved.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gamin...

https://twitter.com/FacebookGaming/status/129170874980819763...

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2. ccktlmazeltov ◴[14 Aug 20 04:11 UTC] No.24153267[source]▶
wow, how is that not unfair competition?
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3. dmix ◴[14 Aug 20 05:35 UTC] No.24154065[source]▶
Is Apple really directly competing with Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Microsoft's xCloud, or Google's Stadia?

All of Apple Arcade's games are just mobile games already available in the App store and reviewed individually. The above options are quite a different proposition and Apple's only grievance is they can't review the PC-style game content they are distributing.

It's probably more like Netflix than Apple Arcade, since they are streaming arbitrary content with subscriptions. But games have always been treated different, so again they are not being uniquely targeted.

(Not that I agree with blocking them)

4. aero-glide ◴[14 Aug 20 06:33 UTC] No.24154459[source]▶
What a disgrace. I hope consumers realize how bad this is. Imagine if something like that happened in the Desktop space.
5. Razengan ◴[14 Aug 20 09:03 UTC] No.24155561[source]▶
Does Microsoft allow other stores on the Xbox?

What about Sony and Nintendo?

Does Epic allow people to buy stuff for Fortnite from outside of Fortnite and other companies?

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6. TheHypnotist ◴[14 Aug 20 12:04 UTC] No.24156771{3}[source]▶
I don’t see how that would work per se, but, they do let you process payments for their in game currency via Xbox, Sony, whatever platform.
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7. Razengan ◴[14 Aug 20 12:08 UTC] No.24156815{4}[source]▶
> I don’t see how that would work per se

Same way as the Steam Workshop and other mod-able games.

8. donkeyd ◴[14 Aug 20 12:26 UTC] No.24156977{3}[source]▶
I would say no. However, you can still buy a game on disk and play that. A big argument on the anti-apple side is that there's no way around the app store, which isn't true for most consoles. It will be soon though, with more consoles losing disk drives.