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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by burnerthrow008 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:38PM (#39624493)
> Another reason we know it is that Apple has (arbitrarily) forbidden app stores that aren't open to third parties. Even if Epic wanted to make it a first-party only store (why?), they couldn't.

That's a circular argument. Apple is arguing (maybe wrongly) that Epic won't follow the rules. You can't refute that argument by saying "but the rules say they have to follow the rules".

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by jsnell on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:00AM (#39626780)
The GP wasn't making an argument about why Epic's account was terminated.

They were making an argument about why Epic wasn't a competitor to Apple. That argument was based on the mistaken belief that Epic was looking to launch a store only for their only games.

In that context it's not a circular argument to point out that a first-party only store cannot be launched on iOS, so obviously that's not what Epic is intending to do.

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