No kidding. Between Irredeemable and Brightburn, the whole Monster Psycho Superman fad has run its course quicker than a zombie apocalypse.

I assume similar nonsense that let them do it in injustice.

Then they can not sell through Apple’s store. Nobody is forcing them to use Apple’s store. They just want to.

You mean the spoiled “artistic” kids who agreed to pay rent and then got pissy when the owners came along and said either pay the rent you’ve owed us for a year or start working it off? The ones who refused to pay for the heat but had money to go out to the Kitt Kat Club? Alternatively in the words of Ben Folds,…

Apple built the mall. They provide the electricity, security guards, food court, merry-go-round, and all the other things that people come to see for all the business that want to use their services to make money. All they ask for is a cut of what you make and Epic knew how much that cut was when they moved in.  And…

Epic is starting to remind me of the “protagonists” from Rent.

Shout out to any millenial-going-on-boomer who knows what the heck I’m talking about.

The Apple/Android lockdown on payment processing systems is what kept the mobile space from completely collapsing as a market when story after story of inadequate parental controls led to “my kid spent $10,000 on microtransactions and now I can’t get a refund and they sent me to collections and ruined my credit”…

...except they launched the same lawsuit against Google, when they have a store for Android, when Google removed them from the Play Store shortly after Apple did. So it’s all about “we want to use your store but keep all the money.”

Those fast download speeds are kind of like health care here in America; great, if you can get it.

This is a war crime on people with data caps.

The fact that Epic is playing this as some sort of injustice to be overthrown and not just Capitalism Working As Intended (which isn’t to say that Capitalism itself isn’t an injustice that needs to be overthrown) is pretty laughable.

The short story is they got kicked out of Apple and Google’s clubs for thinking they were too cool to pay for their share of the dues.

Kill each other like it’s that Matrix cartoon, please.

But it is crossing a line. It’s literally using the principles laid out in 1984 to get its users to fight against another company in the Brand Loyalty Wars.

It’s also blindly obvious how they’re trying to manipulate their audience by framing it in the game world. Whether people get it or not, the ‘Evil Apple’ is a bad guy and that’s why you can’t have your game on your phone. It’s pretty gross and honestly worse than what Apple is actually doing.

Except only a small handful of people will remember Apple used the commercial, but a large majority know what 1984 was. It’s stupid on Epic Games part when we have such serious issues going on with our socio-political atmosphere to try to frame their contract-breaking fight-picking as some kind of ideological battle.…

They know it’s not the case, but they’re hoping that the groundswell of disaffected kids is enough to get Apple to back down.

If you want to sell your apps on the Windows Store, Microsoft absolutely takes a cut and has restrictions on things like payment methods.

Yeah, pretty much all of the legal scholarship on the topic I’ve read has pretty clearly come down on the side of “it’s totally within Apple’s rights to do this, and isn’t anti-competitive (in the legal sense) at all.”

It’s easy to hate on Apple’s walled garden but I honestly don’t see any problem with this