Federico Viticci Mar 8, 2024

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."

Show threadJ. Blake
@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.
Mar 8, 2024 at 6:17pmWeb
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.