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danvm said:

Beats said:

danvm said:

Beats said:

Xed said:

tshapi said:

Xed said:

I agree with him. Apple is a middleman to Epic's software. This is why I fully support Epic in creating their own game console so they can sell Forknife directly to customers the way Nintendo does on their Switch.

I thinks it just about the money. Clearly this was premeditated. He formulated a route and programmed it into the game to by pass Apple and google play stores. Anticipated a lawsuit knowing what he was doing violated there ToS and then had a parody video in place, knowing the likely hood of them yanking fort nite over his TOS violation  was close to 100%.

He also has been outspoken for over 3 years about this. Why did he wait til now to pull this? Why not do it in 2017? Or 2018? Or 2019?  

There was already a pushback with the App Store so they decided to pile on. It was a solid strategic move for someone who lacks ethics (just like trying to define the post office, causing strategic delays, and removing mail boxes from cities so a sitting president can steal another election).

Notice it's only the multi-billionaire dollar companies complaining?

Also notice the "coincidence" of Microsoft doing similar crap KNOWING the rules.

MS didn't do anything wrong.  They followed and respected Apple rules while running xCloud on TestFlight, and took the app down without issues.  Maybe they thought of the possibility of Apple relaxing or changing some rules after seeing the positive reviews and experience of xCloud.  Since it didn't happened, in the announcement they posted the reasons on why xCloud wasn't going to be available in iOS and iPadOS, and it was because Apple.  

This is very different compared to what Epic is doing.  Personally I prefer what MS did, tell customers the reason cloud gaming is not available in Apple mobile devices (in this case, because Apple restricting rules for cloud gaming) and let the market decide.  At the end, Apple customers are missing great gaming experiences because of their rules.  This is an example on how the Apple walled garden is not always for the benefit of the users / customers.  

The timing buddy the timing. Microsoft is not some $2,000 startup unaware of Apple's terms. They KNEW what they did broke the rules and the COMPLAINED like Epic did.

How MS broke App Store rules when it was never released outside of TestFlight?  They gave Apple the opportunity to see an excellent gaming service for Apple customers.  Apple decided not to change or adapt their rules for cloud gaming, and MS stopped developing for it.  Different from Epic lawsuit, they respect Apple (nonsense) rules, and released a statement explaining why Apple was the reason we would not see xCloud in iOS / iPadOS devices.  IMO, this is far better than what are we seeing with Epic.  

Both Epic and Microsoft are bed buddies jealous of Apple's success. And one of them has failed mobile platforms that Apple dominated.

If that's the case, I could say that Apple is jealous of MS success in gaming, and they are blocking xCloud so people are forced to us Apple Arcade, right?

Beats said:

ihatescreennames said:

Waiting for the news about Facebook and its properties being banned from all app stores over privacy and national security concerns. Actually, I don’t care what the concerns are, ban it anyway, ha ha!

First the report about Facebook meeting with advertisers about iOS 14 ad tracking restrictions and then this! It’s turning out to be great week for Facebook news.

Except people on Facebook care more about posting slu**y selfies and bragging about how awesome a life they have.

Facebook is going nowhere for the time being.

GeorgeBMac said:

qwerty52 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

qwerty52 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

I was going to make a joke about market freedom in a country literally run by crime families, then realized that's no different than the situation in the United States right now.

There is a difference: here you can give any comment you want about the government and it wil happened nothing to you . But If you give  the same comment  as a Russian in Russia to the Russian government, it will be not your best day 

While that MIGHT be true, what he said is completely true and accurate.   Don't cover up corruption with the Freedom banner.   It's been overused and its getting worn out.

Any way the combination of corruption and freedom is better, than the combination of corruption without freedom. By the second one you are  not allowed even to think about “The government of my country is corrupt”

We only have Trump's word that China is corrupt.   And we know what that is worth.   So far, when asked for evidence supporting his allegations he has consistently come up empty.  

Oh and before you go down that road I am not a Trump supporter in any way shape or form.

sdw2001 said:

As a musician I am astonished that the review doesn’t actually include any listening or subjective perceptions of sound quality.  What about microphone performance, performance while on the phone, different genres of music, real-world fit and interaction, etc? Analysis of the specifications is great but that’s all it is.   Not even a rudimentary comparison in real world conditions?

razorpit said:

Does Sony get a pass because the games are being played on a device that is owned by the user? The PS Remote Play is not perfect, but definitely serviceable.