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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:25PM (#39619158)
> there haven't been any threatening noncompliance

Do we have neutral sources for these claims and emails?

Apple said Sweeney threatened to breach contract and didn’t repudiate in private. Epic claims it didn’t threaten and did repudiate. We’re in a he said she said absent independent sourcing.

Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by benced on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:15PM (#39619986)
The emails are from this post (https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-e...).

The source for the tweets (from your original comment: "Sweeney allegedly tweeted that he would breach his contract with Apple") are Sweeney's Twitter feed which you can read as well as I did. Did you find any threatening non-compliance?

Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by ben_w on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:24PM (#39620099)
Perhaps it's just me, but my gut says that EpicGames dot com might, possibly, just might, not be an entirely neutral source on the topic of "was Epic naughty?"

Even with screenshots, and assuming no false claims (which IIRC are entirely legal so long as you don't swear under oath), there's plenty of ways to mislead by omission while saying only true things.

Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by jsnell on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:54PM (#39619663)
Epic provided screenshots of the emails. Are you seriously suggesting there's even the tiniest chance they're forgeries?