Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by kirykl on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:14PM (#24426534)

This applies to any business that operates a store, and a business that sells a product within that store.

Replace software with retail in your example, it doesn't sound so abnormal

"Walmart can, at will, remove your entire line of potato chips from your (their) customers and your existance in their stores is just gone."

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by jfim on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:27PM (#24426627)

Sure, but at the same time one could sell their product in different stores, or even D2C online.

The store analogy also has very limited switching costs, for example if Walmart stops selling brand X of potato chips, it's inconvenient but not impractical to go out of one's way to buy them at Target. It would be different if buying potato chips at Target would involve throwing out everything one has bought at Walmart and buying the same Target-equivalent merchandise (ie. switching from iPhone to Android, one would need to buy equivalent apps).

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by pjmlp on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:58AM (#24431900)

Android store, Jolla store, Tizen store, Samsung Store, Amazon store.

Epic's problem is that they want a Epic Store on other people's devices.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by tramav on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:15PM (#24427529)

However: Does Apple support officially other app stores on their iOS platform or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by jsjohnst on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:38PM (#24428395)

> or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?

If you include using 3rd party apps like AltStore, then yes it meets a reasonable definition of convenient, imho.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ghosty141 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:44AM (#24429572)

However: Does Walmart support other Stores that sell your chips?

No! You need to move away from Walmart.

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