Federico Viticci 

Statement from Apple on re-enabling Epic's developer account in Europe:

"Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program."

Mar 8, 2024 at 6:02pmWeb
Show threadYandry QuiñonezMar 8, 2024
@viticci It’s beautiful what the threat of a 38 billions dollars fine can do.
Show threadjeffscottMar 8, 2024
@viticci so many unforced errors lately
Show threadJ. BlakeMar 8, 2024
@viticci I’m in the minority here, but forcing Apple to do business with a company that has been so publicly hostile towards them doesn’t seem like a win.
Show threadMarkVMar 8, 2024

@jblake @viticci They weren’t simply hostile to them in a vacuum though - they were hostile towards the established fact that Apple’s rules were breaking the law. They then purposefully broke one of those rules to get a court to look at it and the court said they had a point.

Ignoring all of that and simply reducing it to Epic breaking the dev agreement like a hostile bad actor is a pretty selective reading of what happened. Apple does not have any moral high ground here.

Show threadArcticulateMar 8, 2024
@jblake @viticci I presume Fortnite won’t be submitted to both the App Store and the alt. marketplace, but rather exclusively be published in their own iOS alternative marketplace. While Apple is holding a grudge still, in my view it’s a win for Apple to not have them show up in the App Store and yet know players can buy iPhones and still play the game without game streaming.
Show threadPatrickMar 9, 2024

@viticci I don’t doubt they had a conversation with Epic, but I’ll bet the App Store team’s conversation with their own legal team is probably what actually moved the needle.

You can’t ban Epic Sweden because Phil Schiller doesn’t like Tim Sweeney criticizing Apple.