Fantastically profitable Corp knows better than the people who own the products. so "we" will always side with the Corp even over our own best interests as consumers. But "we'll" rail anyway because the Corp doesn't want to lose its exclusive hold as the SOLE store and the very lucrative cash that comes from taking a great big bite out of every transaction within that single store. I would place bets that many of the people who will rail against this enhanced consumer freedom- again- probably has at least one app on their own Mac that they did NOT get from the Apple Mac App Store. You now have the ability to do with your iDevices what we've all been able to do with our Macs for all of the years we've owned Macs: buy Apps from more than a single source, including in deeply discounted app bundles. We pay more, app developer makes less but maximizing for the ONE store owner is all that really matters. But obviously, our way is the superior way. You'll have new stores where the creators of those apps can make a bit more for their work while potentially selling their apps to you for less, while we have a single store where the first in line at the profit trough is the ONE store owner, NOT the app developer. but because you have a new law that says you can have access to them and we have a corporation that says we can't. You will now have access to apps that some of us OUTSIDE of the EU would also love to enjoy on devices we own, not because those apps won't work on our iDevices too and not because they are loaded with bank-account-draining viruses created by crime syndicates to completely destroy lives. Where there is no competition, there is no incentive to lower prices- in fact, it's just the opposite to maximize revenue & profit for the sole shopkeeper. ![]() along with a natural pressure to out-value competitors to woo buyers. As history has pretty much always shown, where there is competition, there are lower prices. And congratulations on creating a more competitive environment for apps for your devices. While working to implement the Epic Games Store on iOS, Epic also plans to continue to "argue to the courts and regulators that Apple is breaking the law."Ĭongratulations EU Apple people, on gaining the flexibility to enjoy apps on computing devices you own instead of a corporation deciding for you what you shall and shall not have on devices you own. ![]() ![]() He called it a "devious new instance of Malicious Compliance" and said that the company "strongly reject Apple's twisting this process to undermine competition and continue imposing Apple taxes on transactions they're not involved in." Shortly after Apple's alternative app marketplace plan was announced, Epic Games promised that Fortnite would "return to iOS" in Europe, and at the same time, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney lambasted Apple's plan to comply with the DMA. Epic Games did bring it to iPhones and iPads through Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce NOW, but the game has only been accessible through these browser-based services. Apple feud in 2020, and it has been unavailable since then. The Epic Games Store will launch on iOS in the EU at some point in 2024, and it will provide a way for Epic Games to bring a Fortnite app to iOS once again.įortnite was removed from the iOS App Store at the start of the Epic Games v. In its 2023 Year in Review, Epic said that it received its Apple Developer Account and would soon start developing an alternative app marketplace. Epic Games today announced plans to bring the Epic Games Store to iOS in the European Union, with Apple reinstating the company's developer account.
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