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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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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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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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ccktlmazeltov ◴[14 Aug 20 04:11 UTC] No.24153267[source]▶
wow, how is that not unfair competition?
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1. dmix ◴[14 Aug 20 05:35 UTC] No.24154065{5}[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)