Daring FireballMay 16, 2025
Apple Is Not Reinstating Fortnite to the App Store, and Because of the Stunt-Like Way That Epic Submitted the Latest Build, Fortnite Is Currently No Longer Available on iOS Anywhere in the World
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/16/fortnite-still-banned
Apple Is Not Reinstating Fortnite to the App Store, and Because of the Stunt-Like Way That Epic Submitted the Latest Build, Fortnite Is Currently No Longer Available on iOS Anywhere in the World

Link to: https://x.com/markgurman/status/1923404412090782109

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Show threadKavehMay 16, 2025

@daringfireball @gruber I feel like you've lost the bigger picture here about what Apple *should* do rather than what it *can* do. Whether Apple is justified or not in this action is actually irrelevant to how both the developer and customer communities currently feel about Apple. The question everyone is asking is “is Apple doing the right thing here?”

How is this helping their customers? How is it making iPhone a better product/experience for its users?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGIUa2sSYFI

Steve Jobs - Start with the Customer Experience

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Show threadShadMay 16, 2025

@kavehv @daringfireball @gruber Keeping Fortnite off the App Store improves the user experience. Apple should do a lot more to clean up apps that use deception to get 12-year-olds to run up charges on their parents' credit cards.

https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2023/01/fortnite-video-game-maker-settles-ftc-privacy-deception-claims-for-record-$520-million

Fortnite Video Game Maker Settles FTC Privacy, Deception Claims for Record $520 Million | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Show threadbillyok
@shadash @kavehv @daringfireball @gruber hope you bring this same energy to the literal millions of apps that employ deceptive, scammy weekly subscriptions, all of which is perfectly fine as far as Apple is concerned.
May 16, 2025 at 8:54pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadShadMay 17, 2025
@billyok @kavehv @daringfireball @gruber It is hard to understand why you don’t see @gruber as an ally here. DF has given Apple tons of criticism for “the literal millions of apps that employ deceptive, scammy weekly subscriptions” As you do, I lump Fortnite in with those shitty apps. Good riddance.
Show threadbillyokMay 17, 2025
@shadash I wasn’t talking to him, I was talking to you. If you equate Fortnite with the kind of apps I’m talking about (which Apple has no problem letting in its store), you simply aren’t smart.
Show threadShadMay 17, 2025
@billyok I didn’t equate Fortnite with garbage apps that scam children. The FTC did. Take it up with them.