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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: 0s | 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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throwaway6000 ◴[14 Aug 20 04:21 UTC] No.24153339[source]▶
1. Apple establishes rules that EVERY app publisher follows for YEARS.

2. Fortnite doesn't follow rule.

3. Apple kicks Fortnite out of the App store.

What were they expecting?

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jhardy54 ◴[14 Aug 20 04:22 UTC] No.24153345[source]▶
They were expecting to get kicked out of the app store so that they could file a lawsuit and challenge the app store monopoly. How is that unclear?
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throwaway6000 ◴[14 Aug 20 04:24 UTC] No.24153359[source]▶
app store "monopoly"? No one's forcing you to use the Apple ecosystem. it's called Android.
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Polylactic_acid ◴[14 Aug 20 06:26 UTC] No.24154402[source]▶
Its a monopoly for developers. As a company you can not not use the app store because half of your customers are there and very few companies can afford to give up half of their customers.
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pjmlp ◴[14 Aug 20 06:39 UTC] No.24154504[source]▶
Developers can chose to target other platforms.

There are countries with 0% iOS market share, half of zero is still zero.

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1. imtringued ◴[14 Aug 20 07:52 UTC] No.24155072[source]▶
I personally don't like Apple and will never buy an Apple product, but I fully agree. People who buy Apple products are perfectly fine with the way Apple restricts their platform. If you don't like this as a developer, then just leave and stop developing for iOS.

A single big company doing this just to cut down on some fees just reeks of greed.

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2. pjmlp ◴[14 Aug 20 08:14 UTC] No.24155228[source]▶
It is not a single company, Google also kicked Fortnite, and it has been a thing in game consoles, car infotaiment systems, pre loaded apps on TV settop boxes and blue-ray players,....

The world is unfair, no one is expected to do charity for developers.

We are not a special snowflake job that isn't expected to give others the necessary payments to keep the whole chain working.