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they revoked Epic's developer account. if Epic is restricted from getting the tools needed to further develop Unreal Engine, that effectively prevents Epic fro
by compsciphd 6y ago
they revoked Epic's developer account. if Epic is restricted from getting the tools needed to further develop Unreal Engine, that effectively prevents Epic from doing further development on it.
- misnome 6y agoAren’t the tools freely available without a developer account?
- eru 6y agoEven those come with a license, and Apple could probably have specifically revoked that license from Epic. (I'm just speculating here.) It's not so much about what's technically possible, but about what's legally allowed.
- pavlov 6y agoWhile you can download Xcode with just a regular Apple ID, you can't really test your code on an iOS device without an Apple developer account, so the usefulness would be limited.
- dep_b 6y agoI have to use my own developer account basically every time I build an app for a customer until they got around to either inviting me to their team or creating their personal developer account. Unless Epic is filled with developers that never ever launched their own application not being part of the Epic developer account is an annoyance (and a familiar one for most iOS developers) at most. You don't need to deploy an SDK the only thing you would deploy are test builds of games that use the updated SDK.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoThe tools are. On-device testing isn't.
- 1f60c 6y agoIt is, but it is quite limited. I don't think you can really "distribute" your app in any meaningful sense of the word, and you also have to reinstall it every seven days.