Games

31749 readers

1376 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

Submissions have to be related to games
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
No excessive self-promotion
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

389

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem (techcrunch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apple just isn't good at playing this "control an entire industry" game as its contemporaries like Microsoft.

It's "embrace, extend, extinguish". But apples play seems to be more like the five stages of grief.

denial, the eu won't ever force us to do a thing, we're Apple! They wouldn't.
anger, <- we are here
barginning
depression
acceptance.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They'll never reach acceptance. Maybe court-ordered compliance, but never true acceptance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The court rulings better cover every way Apple could avoid compliance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe a lawyer could tear this apart and find loopholes, but the law should be so simple as to say:

"A company providing mobile computing services and products, being hardware, software, or networking, shall allow under all circumstances and without restriction, the installation and usage of applications from all sources."

But of course, I'm not a Lawyer, so there's probably a loophole to be found in that.