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Thanks for sharing. Ah so Epic couples it all together.

• onion2k 6y ago
  Not just Epic. Apple do. If you think Epic Games and Epic International are wholly separate then telling Epic Games "Engineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS hardware;" would make no sense. It's very clear that Apple are threatening to do things that impact all of Epic in that letter. What's less clear is whether or not Apple would have actually revoked Epic International's developer accounts. You might like to give Apple the benefit of the doubt, but it's ambiguous enough for a court to issue a ruling that Apple aren't allowed to do that. This is obviously not just Epic catastrophizing if the court agreed with them and ruled in their favor on that part.
  • sjwright 6y ago
    Common sense ties them together. While the Fortnite app was in violation of terms, it wasn’t the app itself which violated the terms—it was the corporation.
    • mschuster91 6y ago
      > Common sense ties them together. The problem is that the US judicial system, thanks to its focus on precedent cases no matter how old they are, and "modern common sense" don't always fit together.
    • mcphage 6y ago
      > While the Fortnite app was in violation of terms, it wasn’t the app itself which violated the terms—it was the corporation. Definitely not. If you have multiple apps in the App Store, and one is removed for violating the terms, the rest should not be removed, since the others didn’t violate those terms.
      • sjwright 6y ago
        That would make sense if apps wrote themselves and signed their own agreements with app stores.