After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS
Over four years after Epic broke App Store rules and sparked a billion-dollar battle, "Fortnite" is finally back on iPhone and iPad.
Yes, I know, Fortnite bad, but this is a big deal. The way we got here is often embarrassing, but this is a major step toward tearing down walled garden ecosystems.
I mean.......do we want to tear it down?
Apple is apple. They don't make false claims about how walled off they are.
Android is android. And for people who want to strip out all the google stuff, you can. And you can use F-Droid exclusively.
But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they're going to be happy without the apple experience?
Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.
But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they're going to be happy without the apple experience?
Oh my God, they're going to have to make decisions for themselves!? The horror!
Yes, we want to tear it down. This is a company that was taking a revenue share of any purchase made on their device, whether or not they incurred a cost in facilitating it. It's universally bad for consumers. It's why game prices on consoles don't have competition like they do on PC, and it's responsible for consumers feeling lock-in to an ecosystem, feeling as though they can't respond to a bad product by moving to the competitor.
I mean.......do we want to tear it down?
Pretty sure we do.
Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.
So you agree it's good Fortnite now exists on iOS? Apple users get more options?
Apple is apple. They don't make false claims about how walled off they are.
That's doesn't make it a good thing.
But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they're going to be happy without the apple experience?
The Apple experience = locked down devices? If people (and Apple) stopped fearmongering about “security” or whatever, yeah they would, or at worst they wouldn’t care. I’d certainly welcome being able to publish apps on my terms, and being able to install what I want.
Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.
That’s exactly the point. You don’t have to use the parts of a theoretical more open ecosystem if you don’t want to, you can keep using exclusively the official Apple stuff. But it creates more choice for the user if it exists.
With switch emulation possible via StikDebug and now this
It’s just W after W against Apple and I’m all for it
This iai going to be as drawn out as the SCO thing isnt it
Or maybe more like the Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dicken's Bleak House
Isn't this news like 4 months old or something?
No, Epic just recently won the court case against Apple. The Epic submitted this game to the App Store after winning, but Apple didn’t approve or reject it.
Epic then brought another court case against Apple for not approving their app and now, without going to court, the app is back on the App Store.
Its recurring news going back multiple years at this point. And probably into the future.
This CRASH is NOT a "Game"... It's (Shopping). And the reasons why our beloved hobby is riddled with GREED.
#RETROGAMING
Fortnite is completely free to play friendly. There is no pay to win.
Yeah as much as I dislike the business model of microtransactions in modern games, and fortnite is the most popular and blatant example, they're also pretty much the gold standard in how it should be done.
I'm pretty emotionally ambivalent towards it. I both dislike and respect it at the same time.