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Re:Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac by anned20 on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:45AM (#24515970)
It's literally Epic not wanting to comply with Apple's App Store policies and then crying that Apple is bullying them for not making an exception.
Re:Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac by plorg on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:31AM (#24516515)
Certainly Epic is in a place that other Apple customers are not, in having the user base to profitably run a competing App Store. But I haven't heard any where that Epic wants an exception and fuck everyone else. Apple might do that if it shut Epic up, but they could also make TOS changes that made their customer relationships unilaterally less one-sided, and that would be less "exception" than "change". (at which point "crying" might better be described as "arguing" or even "protesting")

I don't particularly like either company here, but Apple using its market power to inhibit competition certainly sounds like the bigger problem.

Re:Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac by ascagnel_ on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:44AM (#24516674)
> But I haven't heard any where that Epic wants an exception and fuck everyone else.

Apple has made a few filings documenting this, including that Epic specifically asked for a side letter to the standard developer contract granting them special treatment.