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: 0.198s | source

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throwaway140820 ◴[14 Aug 20 04:16 UTC] No.24153297[source]▶

Apologies for the extreme swearing that ensues.

Wow, I would have hoped for better support from the HN community. Instead there are apologists after apologists. So what if Epic is big. Really, seriously shouldn't we have had alternative app stores available form the official ones. Why is this even a point of debate? All the time we hear stories of people one of our own getting fucked by these app stores and their lordship and now that we have an opportunity to make some noise, this is the response? Fuck that. Maybe we deserve these lords.

Fuck your security and fuck your walled gardens. Fucking no alternative browser allowed. Fuck that, fuck you apple and fuck you google. Fuck your monopoly and chokehold on the devs.

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popeathlete ◴[14 Aug 20 04:23 UTC] No.24153354[source]▶

>>24153297 #

Epic is no better. Trading one owner for another makes no difference in the best case. It's either free and open source and user-focused or nothing.

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1. bitL ◴[14 Aug 20 04:33 UTC] No.24153449[source]▶

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It's like with politics - you vote for the polarizing person that would eat the other ones so that there can't be a lasting consensus disadvantaging some group permanently. Politicians need to be at each other's throats and never sure about anything to minimize the damage they would do otherwise.

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