Apple has abruptly reversed a decision to ban Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite,” from launching its own app store on iOS in Europe — just a day after European Union officials said they were investigating the matter.
  • dev_null
    52·
    9 months ago

    Epic has proven itself to not care for the rules and deliberately manipulate public opinion.

    What relevance does that have? Apple should apply the same rules to everyone, even if they “don’t deserve it”.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
      41·
      9 months ago

      But they are.

      Epic deliberately broke the rules, and get kicked off the store.

      They then try to register as Epic Sweden and get denied due to their previous fuckery.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
        32·
        9 months ago

        No, they weren’t removed from the dev program when things went down, even when the judge said they could.

        But years later they decided “no wait, now that you can release your own store y’know what? Let’s nip this in the bud.”

        They also said part of the decision was because of ongoing litigation, which is a huge secondary problem.