Epic says that Apple has accepted its third-party app store
Epic says that Apple has accepted its third-party app store
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Epic says that Apple has accepted its third-party app store
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Only a matter of time before they move the goal posts again to protect their monopoly. Tim Cook is a bully.
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Apple is just sorta gross in general, Tim's just the icing on top.
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They used to be cooler and their products have always provided a superior experience. They were counter culture in the 80s, 90s and 00s with their bluebox roots, anti-IBM/anti-Wintel marketing, tiny market share and focus on creators and education.
Now that they are successful they are essentially using Microsoft's old playbook and bullying everyone into using their products. Really makes me sad.
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That's why the EU election is the most important election for the world, because no one else is doing anything.
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If Epic supports the whole Unreal Engine pricing rate in iOS thats a really big thing.
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The fact apple gets to decide which app stores are allowed and which aren't kind of defeats the point of this decentralisation attempt
The point ist to not buy an iPhone. Buy Hardware that supports your rights, not hardware that actively fights it.
I think you read it wrong then. It just says that Apple has accepted it, not that they decide.
It is EU who makes the rules. This just implies that Apple is on board or have been forced to do so.
If Apple had denied, it would break the rules laid upon them.
The fact apple has the option to accept or deny a third party store means they get to decide what third party stores are allowed on their device. The spirit of the law that the EU punished them for would say that apple should not have any say in what the users install on their devices, similar to how Aptoide, f-droid, and other third party app stores exist on android without requiring Google's approval. Apple is just doing all they can to comply to the smallest legal degree they can to make as much money as possible from the waiting period between EU wristslaps.
Well they had denied, because the placement of the Install button was too similar to where it is in their own store 🙄, and changed course to temporarily approve it.