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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: 0.328s | source
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ss3000 ◴[14 Aug 20 03:46 UTC] No.24153083[source]▶
I wonder why Fortnite doesn't also make a WebAssembly version of Fortnight and deploy it on fortnite.com?

Then Apple would get jack shit from any sales there, so they can fight this battle with them while still offering access to the game for Apple users.

I'm probably missing some esoteric limitation Apple places on web-based games to cripple this use case.

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1. hjnilsson ◴[14 Aug 20 08:06 UTC] No.24155171[source]▶
Restrictions on how much data a website can store prevents this. You can't cache 4GB of game data on a website (maximum in mobile Safari is 5MB for app cache).