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Apple business executives ban Fortnite from iOS. People around the world - including in Europe - say their iPhone is preventing them from playing the videogame. (www.clubic.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Epic is a piece of shit company. The only reason they are fighting this fight with Apple is because they want some of Apple’s platform fees for themselves. Period.

The fact that they managed to convince a bunch of simpletons that they are somehow Robin Hood coming to free them from the tyrant (who was actually protecting all those users all along) is laughable. Apple created the platform, Apple managed it, curated it, and controlled it. That gives them the right to profit from it. You might dislike that but — guess what? Nobody forced you to buy it. Buy Android if Fortnight is so important to you. Seriously. Please. We won’t miss you.

Epic thinks they have a right to profit from Apple’s platform and not pay them for all the work they did to get it to be over 1 billion users. That is simply wrong. They should build their own platform and their own App Store and convince 1 billion people to use it. The reason they aren’t doing that is because they know they will never be as successful as Apple has been.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t they literally just lose a court case about this very thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think the case was more about the store front(app store) and the percentage they impose without alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

So they're wilfully ignoring the EU's Digital Markets Act and a US court-ordered injunction that prevents them from punishing developers for trying to circumvent the use of the App Store for in-app purchases, after one of their execs was caught lying under oath and potentially facing criminal repercussions.

I'm not the biggest fan of Epic Games, but I really want to see this backfire spectacularly. Apple's business practices are so bad that it makes me want to see Tim Sweeney kick Tim Cook's ass in court.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I personally always root for the underdog when I have no stake. I thank epic for the free games I play on my steam deck, used to have an iPhone but transitioned to a Linux phone fairly early, and not a fan of either company's current director.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I can't believe I'm cheering for Sweeney even once, but I guess it works out for all of us in this case.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

If you care about freedom, use open source operating systems, and only buy hardware that support it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

say their iPhone is preventing them from Installing what they want.

Mind blown that's what you are paying 1000€ for every few years for you Starbucks capitalist - coffee (a coffee for about 25€ thats just a normal coffee so those Hippies can feel like they are fighting capitalism) drinking dipshit.

How does it take someone so long to realise one of the main points of a product they are buying? Like, its like if I'd use a toilet plunger from public bathrooms as totthbrushes, and just after getting e.coli 10 times I realised that they aren't there to brush teeth.

You want the 3 f's? Freedom, Foss and fortnite? Start standing up against such business practices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I keep trying to explain this to useful idiots but to no avail.

The money they keep throwing at corporations will always be used against them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

While I agree with your point and energy, let's not give anyone going to Starbucks the moniker of "hippie". That is a sacred term reserved for the awesomest of people, and doesn't need to be tarnished by the association with people that have more money than sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. I'll add to this that when I look at prices of hardware, it's not even an option. Buying an iPhone would be equivalent to buying a good laptop, except you just can't do much work on a PDA. When excluding actually doing work, as a tool for the job it's equivalent to something 4 times cheaper.

And in addition to that it has disgusting elitist advertising, relies on sweatshops for production, and isn't even fully usable without company's permission to run this or that.

I wanted one when I thought they look very cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

To be fair, Theres not really any phone that dosent use sweatshops except fairphone if you disregard the Qualcomm and other proprietary parts

But yes, Its really shitty, like, I am using an old samaung S3 as internet radio to this day, and an S7 with lineage as Retroarch gaming console, and they both run completely fine with and without battery. If those were iPhones from that era, they wouldn't even work anymore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Honestly Fortnite mobile wasn't very enjoyable to begin with

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