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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 2 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.505s | 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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1. tommilukkarinen ◴[14 Aug 20 05:41 UTC] No.24154102[source]▶
I was asked today, something with the lines: "Why don't you organize and fight? Why don't you build an open ecosystem, which you will use to replace stores."

I was thinking after that a) we could make a store (that's the simple part) b) when enough of us were behind we could pressure for it to be accepted

Because even if Epic wins and we can have some improvements, it wont fix the issues

I would donate and work for the cause, what about the rest of you? How to get started, Apache Foundation?

EDIT: I have to add, I would not work for this 'because it is the right thing to do', but to ensure that I can do business in the future without fear of A+G

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2. jacobwilliamroy ◴[26 Aug 20 13:43 UTC] No.24282354[source]▶
Basically we have to lobby the government to undo decades of case law going back to the late 90s and make it illegal for companies to run vertically integrated monopolies. That's the work. You ready for that?

No. We cant just slink off into IRC and build our own store. We cant just do The Right Thing, we also have to make the Wrong Thing prohibitively expensive for the general population.