Screw Apple, Screw Google, And Screw Epic Games
Screw the lot of them. Yes, Apple and Google need taking down from their high towers. Yes, Epic Games has a point as it sues to keep Fortnite on mobile devices. But absolutely all of them are as bad as each other.
Epic Games is currently trying to mobilize fans into an embarrassing sort of freedom force. The company deliberately broke terms of service with Apple in order to manipulate a situation in which Fortnite’s removed from the App Store and Epic positions itself as a rebel icon.
Fortnite started trying to see virtual currency directly, ignoring the mandatory payment processes that give Apple and Google their cuts on iOS and Android. It’s a gigantic fight over money that Epic has more or less staged, and while Apple and Google take huge cuts from developers, there is no way Epic should be seen as a hero – especially with the tasteless way in which it’s performing said “heroics.”
Source: https://kotaku.com/apple-removes-fortnite-from-app-store-1844717397
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