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This is one immoral company fighting another for money and simply hoping people will see the other as more immoral. There's something disgusting about their te
by happytoexplain 6y ago
This is one immoral company fighting another for money and simply hoping people will see the other as more immoral.
There's something disgusting about their technique of preparing a propaganda film portraying themselves (a massive corporation) as the courageous underdog representing the people, then purposefully breaking ToS for the purposes of provoking the obvious reaction which they could then "react" to by releasing the film.
Of course all of this is independent of Apple's actual sin, which is indeed an overbearing ToS.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoThey broke the TOS so Apple would block the app, which then gives them standing in court. Without standing, any judge would dismiss their case.
- happytoexplain 6y agoA fair point for legal pragmatism, though it doesn't affect my opinion of their character.
- stefan_ 6y agoAh yes, the sanctity of the ToS was violated. My heart bleeds.
- happytoexplain 6y agoWhy the snark? I certainly said more than "they violated the ToS", which I even explicitly stated was an overbearing ToS.
- Vmody2 6y agoNailed it. I played fortnite consistently for 2 years. They milked everyone for in-game purchases. This is fun to watch play out, but at the end of the day they're both large companies with fat margins.
- paulgb 6y agoThe way I see it, Apple has been trying to have the best of both worlds. They want to portray their App store policies as putting the user first - protecting them from malware and standardizing the experience. But the reality is that in some cases, there is a conflict of interest where what is best for the user is not the same as what's best for Apple, and Apple has of late been tending more to the “best for Apple” side in enforcement decisions. The purpose of Epic's “stunt” was to demonstrate this conflict of interest. They couldn't have had the PR impact they wanted without it.