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> Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission. Epic should have every right to distribute apps and users every right to download them
by teruakohatu 6y ago
> Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
Epic should have every right to distribute apps and users every right to download them (outside the app store at no cost to Apple) . Unfortunately in our dystopian reality a couple of corporations get to decide who can run what.
- darkwizard42 6y agoiOS is not an open platform. Apple has never marketed it as such, never promised as such, and there are a healthy number of alternatives (primarily Android) for those who are interested in it. iOS/Apple have no legal requirement to host Epic's content...or allow Epic to distribute without following Apple's rules...
- pjmlp 6y agoThey signed a contract willingly, no one forced them to. Also they are completely fine with the console stores.
- saurik 6y agoAnd so then the question at hand is whether it was a legal contract due to constraints on what Apple is allowed to do as a market actor in their position.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhich as proven by other app stores, completely legal. Epic will fall flat on its face and the dreams of having their own 30% lost. But hey, they can always create their own Epic Machines.
- anoncake 6y agoIf Epic fought against console stores, people would say they are completely fine with Apple's store.
- pjmlp 6y agoEpic is just playing stupid games for their bottom line and then there are all these hippies, the same ones that believed in junk like Google's "Do no evil", routing for Epic, without realising that they just want their Epic store, with their own exclusives. It is going to be such a major fail, thankfully some lawyers will be happy.
- anoncake 6y agoI don't root for Epic, I root against Apple.
- pjmlp 6y agoThe 60's are long gone and PC was an accident of IBM's incompetency to keep it vertically integrated as other home micro platforms. Something that Android, tablet and laptop OEMs are in the process of fixing. Keep hating Apple if it makes you happy.
- perryizgr8 6y agoHaving additional app stores would be a win for everybody except Apple. Whatever Epic's intentions may be, if they succeed we all win against the massive mobile duopoly.
- pjmlp 6y agoAndroid proves otherwise.
- blato 6y agoThey signed but not willingly. This notion of "you signed = you consent" is ridiculous when you are in practice forced to sign. When there is a mono/duopoly there is no choice if you want to live or do business. You are forced to accept their conditions. I do not agree with banks, Google, Linkdln, FB, etc. yet I have been forced to sign their user agreement to have a job, to be able to buy food, etc. In no way I consent to their terms but I have been forced. Consoles situation is bad too but you can live without a console, you can't live without a phone. The usage of phones is not comparable with consoles. We do everything on phone/tablets/laptop and almost nothing on consoles. That's why addressing Google / Apple Store monopolies are a priority compared to marginal things in our lives like consoles
- pjmlp 6y agoPlenty of people live with feature phones and do whatever they need on their computer, nothing obliges them to buy an iPhone.