Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account

Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by sixstringtheory on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:34PM (#28632387)

Apple isn’t an HOA, HOAs dictate what people can do with houses that the HOA had no hand in building. Apple built the houses and the logistics network that made building and selling them possible.

Also, the majority of people do not own their houses, banks do. Try financing a house and then stop servicing your loan. That’s essentially what Epic has done: breached contract.

Epic’s “store” is an app, and evidently they do need Apple to distribute it to Apple devices, unless you can tell me how to install it right now on my device?

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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by wvenable on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:29PM (#28633149)

You're muddying the issue here on purpose. Mortgages are irrelevant to the analogy. The logistics network is irrelevant. If you buy a TV, there is a big logistics network in making and building them too -- so what?

> unless you can tell me how to install it right now on my device?

This is the dictionary definition of begging the question. You can't install apps on the iPhone because you can't install apps on the iPhone -- that's not an argument.

Software distribution and installation, historically, not required an "app store". That's a relatively new invention.

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