Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:06PM (#39621450)

Depends on the ruling, judge, and arguments. Law does pay attention to overseas precedence, but it's just another piece of evidence to consider, not final worldwide judgement.

In the case here, Epic doing a behavior to go around a store policy that EU specifically is considering bad may mean they cast aside the US rulings.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by SllX on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:14PM (#39621556)

I think we’re at least 95% or more in agreement here.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by dwaite on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:20PM (#39622495)

I suspect if the disagreement is in Epic refusing to commit to honoring a contract and the CEO referring to it as requiring "sworn fealty", the actual resolution would be for Apple to show the actual harm in a marketplace violating said contract.

From there a lot of things can happen to negotiate a resolution, such as negotiating penalties for not following said contract.

I don't think Epic will be able to convince a court that there is no resolution when Apple has already said before and now what they would require for Epic to resume their business relationship with Apple.

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