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> "Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again
by rdtsc 3y ago
> "Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again," Epic said in its statement today.
The retaliation is shady, but is the retaliation illegal? Even if a whistleblower would show an Apple internal conversation that looks like "Let's retaliate against Epic", the fine print everyone probably has some "we can terminate the account for any reason" clause, which would include retaliation as well?
- warkdarrior 3y agoDMA requires that (stated informally) large enough online marketplaces do not retaliate against developers or users without a good cause.
- TillE 3y agoThe DMA requires that companies like Apple provide fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory access for competition. The account is really neither here nor there, it's only an issue because Apple has chosen to make it a requirement to distribute an app marketplace. It's pretty clear that they can't legally freeze out Epic as a competitor, but how they solve that is up to them.
- threeseed 3y ago[flagged]
- smoldesu 3y agoApple is being unfair and unreasonable, and they literally just walked back this decision within 24 hours of you vehemently defending it. As good a time as any to ask yourself; why do you defend a company you don't understand?
- awesomeMilou 3y agoIt remains to be seen if Apple's developer agreement is valid under EU law.
- amf12 3y agoThink about how many times you've violated EULAs.
- rdtsc 3y agoThat's good to hear. Let's hope a whistleblower would step up then, because it looks an awful lot like retaliation.
- snowpid 3y agoRetaliation goes against the spirit of the DMA.