That’s why they had to charge more this year, to pay for the extra development that put the paid ads into the game…

I mean, yeah, that was the one thing Epic won. A link. Apple could remove the game for another, unrelated reason if there’s a different TOS violation.

That’s not what happened either. Epic’s violation of the TOS (a count that Apple won), is what lead to them being removed from the store. Apple gets to keep the walled garden, their 30% cut of in-app purchases, and they don’t have to let third party stores directly into the garden. The only thing Epic won was the…

No, because the court upheld the walled garden business model. Epic only won one count, allowing devs to link to third party payment systems. Fortnite isn’t coming back to the App Store, Apple still gets its 30% cut on in-app purchases, they don’t have to allow third party stores into the App Store, and Epic had to…

They’re not being allowed back because they breached a contract by violating the terms of service. The court ruling over links to outside payment doesn’t retroactively change that. I’m pretty sure that I’ve pointed out to you before that their store is a private business and that the government can’t force them to…

Kotaku has always been pro-Epic and pro-EGS for some reason

Yep. Epic’s choice to kick off the legal argument by deliberately violating the developer agreement was very short-sighted. Apple’s entirely within their rights to say they won’t allow a dev that willfully breeched their terms back on the App Store, and so Epic’s cut of iOS Fortnite sales goes from 70% of millions to…

Everyone dunking on Kotakus headline is pretty much right. Like you don’t have to be immersed in the nuance of the decision to see Apple is praising the ruling and Epic isn’t to come away with the general idea that Apple won a pretty big victory here for their business model.

They simply can’t block an app from giving you a link to an outside web page to buy things. If you want to provide actual in-app purchases, it still has to go through Apple, 30% and all (or whatever the cut is after the recent changes). And no, you can’t force Apple to let you have your app on their store the same way…

Thats not actually how this played out. I dont think anyone other then this click baity headline would say that Epic won. Epic does not get their own distribution platform in iOS, Epic does not get their own payment processing in iOS. What Epic and all other developers did win is a victory for common sense. They are…

That is a really well done trailer.

“Angry Woman” comes across as angry and combative to fellow jezabel commenters.

“Why be a bitch”

Dude/dudette- I got his name wrong, the number of kids wrong

All this when one could simply... not?

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Yeah my friends who worked with her. I get not believing folks on the internet so it’s not like I’m going to disparage you for that, but that’s the source.

Jesus fucking christ, Jezebel. Maybe wait more than 48 hours from posting THIS:

It’s been really sad to watch Kotaku gradually become what its critics have long said it is. I have been reading Kotaku since around 2010-2011, I’m guessing, and it was once by far my favorite site for coverage of games and the culture around games. Over the last year or two, though, and especially over the last few…

The title makes me smh. Some articles should point out race, but this one is not needed. You could just say: