thinkman@chartermi.net

Epic is trying hard to villainize Apple, and regardless of who's right in this dispute, Epic's tactics are making themselves look more and more like the bad guy. 

EPIC FAILURE!  As someone who's purchased software directly from a creator's website, who also sells its software in the App Store (think Affinity, Skylum (Luminar, Aurora HDR, etc), and many others, this is total BS. Grandstanding to create conflict in order to draw attention to themselves, Epic has shown what hypocrites they truly are. The obvious timing with the dinosaurs in Congress who wouldn't know a CPU from an STD, and think a Joystick is something they have between their legs, heat up a battle with the biggest tech giants because they have nothing more pressing (like the pandemic, the resulting destruction to our economy and the list goes on & on)! What to do……personally, I deleted all Epic products from my many Apple Devices. Regardless of what they do to try to lure me back, it'll never happen. Epic - R.I.P.

The idea of double-dealing crooks like Facebook calling out ANYONE for deceptive processes would be comical if it weren't utterly insane! I understood what a cesspool Facebook was shortly after they came on the scene. I saw my formerly highly productive friends spending hours on the platform…… pretty much saying and doing uncharacteristically useless reasons. After less than 3 months, I deleted my account and have never looked back. 

 Just booted Fartnite from my game store (er…all my devices)…… lawsuit and "flashy" ad (that took at least 2 weeks to produce) to follow. That's what these opportunist grandstanding epic idiots did to Apple, and will likely do to Google. Any company that would go to these lengths are not making a statement, their insidious actions serve only to prop up an often failing company. Transparent premeditation. Fail! Go back to level one.

Of course, Epic will not be discounting direct sales by the 30% they pay Apple, otherwise, they wouldn't do it. I'm not sure how they're getting away with this scheme right in the App Store, but Apple really needs to boot them off! Let them invest in advertising to the millions, if not billions of people who get their software from the Apple, and even though they're an established, major gaming platform, there's no way they'll be able to reach nearly as many as would have found them on the App Store. They're a well-known entity to devout gamers, but will lose exposure to new or more casual gamers who don't know them from Adam! Good luck in your efforts to sabotage Apple……I predict abject failure.