> Because if the app was permitted to be installed outside of the app store, it would make more money, meaning the app store offers negative utility to some dev

> Because if the app was permitted to be installed outside of the app store, it would make more money, meaning the app store offers negative utility to some developers. Fortnite is a huge brand outside of iOS. It iOS did not make the success of Fortnite. Epic doesn't need the app store's advertising to succeed, and being forced to go through this bottleneck only hampers them. It’s the same for Epic on PlayStation, Switch and Xbox.