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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by sebmellen on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:47PM (#24148825)
I can't picture this happening due to the sheer size of the Electron ecosystem. Do you think there's any precedent for this?
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by social_quotient on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:39PM (#24150479)
John Deere saying you can’t work on your own tractor? 50 years ago this would have been an insane proposition.

I know it’s not the same but something feels similar to me.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by colejohnson66 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:55PM (#24150668)
Is there any reason Electron couldn’t switch to, say, Firefox?
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by sebmellen on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:17PM (#24151627)
Electron is really 100% Chromium. I can't see them switching from it (though it would be nice to have a Firefox-base version).
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by jw14 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:34PM (#24152567)
A Firefox based Electron was tried: Positron. It was scrapped for some reason or other (lack of traction?): https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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