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  • Apple fires back in Epic Games 'Fortnite' saga, seeks damages for breach of contract

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    Holy crap!  I didn't think Apple would take their gloves off already now. But I'm all for it.  Give'm h3ll, Apple!!!
     :* 

    #KickSweeney_FreeFortnite
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  • Apple's September 15 'Time Flies' event invite hides a whimsical AR logo

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    Time flies like an arrow
    Fruit flies like an apple

     :p 
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  • Apple's 'Fortnite' takedown will cause incalculable harm to users, says Epic

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    ITGUYINSD said:
    Beats said:
    I carefully read the article for a change.

    I gathered,
    Epic wants to bypass Apple fees 100% but want to set up a shop on Apple products and reap 100% profit.
    Epic is complaining that Apple has a monopoly on Apple products.
    It may be an Apple product, but it's not owned by Apple, it's owned by the user.  Epic should be free to "setup shop" on any device the owner of the device wants and Epic should not have to pay the manufacturer of the device a fee for the "privilege" of doing so.

    Did you carefully read the article?  I think not.  It literally says "That power emboldened it to design restrictions to create and maintain monopolies in app distribution and in-app payment processing."  Monopoly of distribution and payment processing, NOT Apple products.   So, you gathered wrong.  Apple does have a 100% monopoly on distribution and payment processing.  No lies there.  Is it legal?  I think that is what this is about.
    @ITGUYINSD : Every iPhone owner is free to install other software than Apple's already today. It's called jailbreaking. So what's the problem? Because I sure hope you didn't mean that it should fall upon Apple to adjust their operating system and their services to aid people in circumventing it …right?

    #    KickSweeney_FreeFortnite
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  • German antitrust watchdog now monitoring Apple-Epic battle

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    aderutter said:
    If Apple does get forced to allow other app-stores it should let users know that installing a third party non-apple-approved app will disable all the Apple authored apps to ensure their security is not compromised. So, if you install the Epic app-store for example you can say goodbye to Safari, the official Apple App-Store app, Mail, Calendar, Notes, GarageBand, Pages etc.
    And even more than so. They could say goodbye to any app trying to access common resources like photo album, address book etc. Virtually any app trying to access resources extarnal to it would be stopped, since these resources could be tampered with or confusing the user when trying to access. In principle, you could either run the apps from this alternative App Store  OR  anything else of what you have today, but not both. And this is actually the situation you already have when you jailbreak your iDevice. So, all you enemies of the App Store: stop whining! You already have the results of your wishes in place. Don't you like it?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Arcade game developers talk about experience with Apple

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    Rayz2016 said:
    Apple doesn't really do gaming because it believes folk should get their recreation through being outdoors and taking exercise, rather than sitting in front of a screen.

    Having said that, I think Apple should work with gaming studios in much the same way it works with its manufacturing partners.

    Apple doesn't manufacture its own stuff because it doesn't want to be saddled with a manufacturing infrastructure which they would need to sell or retool when they start making new widgets.

    Likewise, Apple doesn't want to be saddled with a game studio that creates something that might be out of fashion in a year or two.

    However they could create a really great gaming engine (and they might need one soon) and work with/pay game studios to produce really great games to run on it.


    Yes… a gaming engine, but also a game server network and some other common infrastructure elements for gaming — most of which would come in handy also for the other entertainment services. August 30, 2020 10:59AM
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