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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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0xy ◴[14 Aug 20 03:37 UTC] No.24153018[source]▶
A PR stunt that consumers and small businesses could benefit from. 30% decimates indie studios and makes some apps fiscally nonviable.
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briandear ◴[14 Aug 20 03:42 UTC] No.24153052[source]▶
Has it decimated an indie studio? Just curious as to what studios have been decimated.
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tommymachine ◴[14 Aug 20 03:44 UTC] No.24153068[source]▶
Technically they’ve been triple-decimating everyone, since to decimate is to kill one tenth of
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ascorbic ◴[14 Aug 20 04:15 UTC] No.24153290[source]▶
In Latin, sure, but not in English. It's meant "kill or destroy a large proportion" for centuries. Wait til you hear about "December"
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tommymachine ◴[14 Aug 20 04:24 UTC] No.24153358[source]▶
December is actually the tenth month. Jan & Feb were added later. It’s the tenth month that was added, though not the tenth month since the start of the year. The array of calendar months was shifted to make room for two additional months at the beginning of the year.

If I have a son, in December, then I have another son the next year in January, which one is my first son?

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ascorbic ◴[14 Aug 20 04:31 UTC] No.24153417[source]▶
> Jan & Feb were added later.

At which point it was no longer the tenth month.

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tommymachine ◴[14 Aug 20 05:13 UTC] No.24153863[source]▶
My tenth son will always be my tenth son. Though his birthday falls 10 months after that of my twelfth son (whose birthday came in the second month of the calendar year in which he was born), my tenth son will always have come out of the womb tenth!
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dwaite ◴[14 Aug 20 09:50 UTC] No.24155854[source]▶
> My tenth son will always be my tenth son.

Unless you find you had two other sons you didn't know about.

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1. tommymachine ◴[14 Aug 20 14:52 UTC] No.24158671{3}[source]▶
In that case, he would have never been my tenth son, I would have only thought he was. No matter how hard we try, birth order is one of those things that can’t be changed, even with a revelation. Our mental model of it can be corrected, but the order itself is immutable.