Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by dathinab on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:10PM (#24149252)

Yes it only runs games (and maybe multimedia).

Phone run everything from games over office apps to unlocking you apartment doors or handling the check-in at a hotel (yes some hotels have app based check-in).

(And in the end Apps is just a handy short form of Application, so you could say even the name kinda implicates this ;=) )

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Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by lliamander on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:25PM (#24149488)

That's a software limitation, not a hardware limitation. An iPhone is also a general purpose computer that is limited (to a lesser extent ) by the software.

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Re:Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts... by dathinab on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:35PM (#24149643)

Sure what they have in common is:

- A general purpose hardware with specific less general purpose hardware extensions.

Where they differ:

- By default allowing "mostly" any legal kind of software, but then putting absurd constraints on it.

- By default only allowing games and some multimedia and maybe then putting absurd constraints on it (maybe because idk tbh).

I.e. even with apples constraints iOs operates as a general purpose platform while XBox/PS5/Switch do not.

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