@daringfireball Of much, much more concern is the decline of Apple’s core values.

@daringfireball One wonders if Cook still has his framed posters of MLK, RFK, and Jackie Robinson hanging in his office. What a fucking hypocrite.

@daringfireball Cook and Apple are just following the lesson we all learned in middle school: Keep giving in to a bully, praising him, betraying your friends, but of course eventually you’ll have the balls to finally draw a line that you won't cross.

@daringfireball This is an embarrassing defeat for Apple, and especially Tim Cook. Sweeney can break the rules, talk shit, and now Apple has to host Epic’s apps for free, with Fortnite linking to Epic's site for payments. What a clusterfuck.

@ruffin @Strwpok @daringfireball Read the Siracusa post or listen to pretty much any episode of ATP for the last year. I dgaf what Apple’s financial metrics look like. Cook’s handling of regulation by the EU and in the US has been a fiasco, with probable consequences including losing control of the platform and being forced to put Sweeney’s app back in the store.

@daringfireball So Tim Cook lets Apple get outmaneuvered by Tim Sweeney. And he still keeps his job?

@billyok I didn’t equate Fortnite with garbage apps that scam children. The FTC did. Take it up with them.

@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.

@kavehv @daringfireball @gruber Agreed there are a lot of garbage apps. “Apple should do a lot more to clean up apps that use deception . . .” But again, Epic paid a gargantuan fine specifically for targeting children, not gullible users in general, which is much worse.