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Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS

nickpp 2y ago
Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just don’t want them to be able to install other app stores, by mistake or otherwise.
- postalrat 2y ago
  Turn what off? Turn off the ability to install apps?
  - ervine 2y ago
    Regardless of how you may feel about the locked down Apple ecosystem, it's pretty clear (imo) what the question meant.
    - postalrat 2y ago
      How do you get these alternative stores on your phone? I assume through an app you need to install. It's not just going to be there when you buy your phone.
- darwinwhy 2y ago
  How much AAPL do you own?
- Apocryphon 2y ago
  It's almost certainly an opt-in feature. Do you have to tell your parents not to enable Developer Mode as well?
  - nickpp 2y ago
    Opt-in works for me. As long as they don’t get something like the browser selection prompt - that is a nightmare. No problems with the Dev Mode menu (knock on wood) but I did have to tell them not to install VPN profiles…
- epolanski 2y ago
  Why do you imagine yourself having to explain them anything at all? What do you care what store your parents download apps?
  - nickpp 2y ago
    I am the one they call when something doesn’t work anymore. Getting them iPhones & iPads reduced those calls tremendously. I still have nightmares about the browser plugins they used to have installed on their Win XP PC.
    - epolanski 2y ago
      And why would apps on other stores not work anymore (which by the way has nothing to do with the store they download it)? Do you think people with android are having their phones or applications broken because you can install applications by random places on the internet? That just...doesn't happen.
- jayski 2y ago
  Your parents would have to specifically install the Epic Game Store. If they did (which I doubt unless they're avid gamers) the only thing available for purchase there is game related.
darknavi 2y ago
*for the European market. (the HN title is faithful to the original article)
gcp123 2y ago
Apple is doing everything it can to add friction to this process for Epic. It rejected this store because of the button design. Then approved it “temporarily” after Epic brought attention to the triviality of the decision. Temporary, pending Epic changing the buttons.
- epolanski 2y ago
  I genuinely hope EU is going to punish this behavior, and I see no way it won't. This is plain and simple malicious compliance.
  - Apocryphon 2y ago
    They obey but they do not comply.
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Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just don’t want them to be able to install other app stores, by mistake or otherwise.

postalrat 2y ago
Turn what off? Turn off the ability to install apps?
- ervine 2y ago
  Regardless of how you may feel about the locked down Apple ecosystem, it's pretty clear (imo) what the question meant.
  - postalrat 2y ago
    How do you get these alternative stores on your phone? I assume through an app you need to install. It's not just going to be there when you buy your phone.
darwinwhy 2y ago
How much AAPL do you own?
Apocryphon 2y ago
It's almost certainly an opt-in feature. Do you have to tell your parents not to enable Developer Mode as well?
- nickpp 2y ago
  Opt-in works for me. As long as they don’t get something like the browser selection prompt - that is a nightmare. No problems with the Dev Mode menu (knock on wood) but I did have to tell them not to install VPN profiles…
epolanski 2y ago
Why do you imagine yourself having to explain them anything at all? What do you care what store your parents download apps?
- nickpp 2y ago
  I am the one they call when something doesn’t work anymore. Getting them iPhones & iPads reduced those calls tremendously. I still have nightmares about the browser plugins they used to have installed on their Win XP PC.
  - epolanski 2y ago
    And why would apps on other stores not work anymore (which by the way has nothing to do with the store they download it)? Do you think people with android are having their phones or applications broken because you can install applications by random places on the internet? That just...doesn't happen.
jayski 2y ago
Your parents would have to specifically install the Epic Game Store. If they did (which I doubt unless they're avid gamers) the only thing available for purchase there is game related.

darknavi 2y ago

*for the European market. (the HN title is faithful to the original article)

gcp123 2y ago

Apple is doing everything it can to add friction to this process for Epic. It rejected this store because of the button design. Then approved it “temporarily” after Epic brought attention to the triviality of the decision. Temporary, pending Epic changing the buttons.

epolanski 2y ago
I genuinely hope EU is going to punish this behavior, and I see no way it won't. This is plain and simple malicious compliance.
- Apocryphon 2y ago
  They obey but they do not comply.

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