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Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account by threeseed on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:40PM (#39620339)
You are in many respects a customer of the browser vendors.

They can choose at any point to harm your business e.g. Apple restricting first party cookies.

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Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account by layer8 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:21PM (#39620905)
That’s a lot closer to a desktop OS update possibly breaking your software. This doesn’t make you a customer of Windows/macOS/Linux.

If an OS vendor would target a specific software that way, however, that also would likely have legal consequences.

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Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account by Invictus0 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:45PM (#39620401)
They're not a monopoly though. Apple can disable safari's video playback capabilities, but somehow I doubt that would kill YouTube's business.
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Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account by joemi on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:13PM (#39620791)
To be fair, Apple isn't killing Epic's business by denying them to bypass the app store, or even by kicking them off the app store. Epic's doing just fine without apple.
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