Are you really asking why Apple is asking for a fee for reviewing, hosting, and serving an app on their store? People need to be paid for the work they do.

I mean, it’s an inherently terrible argument. Fortnite isn’t in any way an essential. It’s a luxury. You don’t need access to a luxury all the time. Further, that access was cut off by Epic’s actions, and Epic could readily reinstate that access. Then you get the “payment system” argument; given an option to pay less…

Hey, don’t go insulting Palps like that! He’s got battle scars from his brave fight against the Jedi. All the Orange Lord of the Piss up there has fought against is gravity.

So, just to be clear, his options are either to support the government, or resist, be black-bagged, and vanish of the face of the planet, without doing anything meaningful, and you think he should choose the latter. That sound about right?

*cough*Daikatana*cough*

The only thing preventing Fortnite for Mac from updating is Epic. They could continue making updates for the game and ignore the digital signing, but they’d already stated previously that they were going to stop updating the game. This just gives them an excuse for it that isn’t “we’re not making enough money off Mac…

Let’s see here.

You mean, the undecided center?

No, it didn’t, it played off the idea of a store inside a government. If you can’t refute the points brought up, you should just give up the discussion entirely.

The point is that you can’t accept extensions of your analogy when they start including information detrimental to your argument. There are good reasons for walled gardens, and unless you acknowledge all the facts, your points fall flat.

And I used your metaphor against you. That’s called “discourse.” Apple’s selling point for their phone has always been that it’s a closed, secure, safe system, and that’s all it’s ever needed. The developer can then have a captive market to sell their app to, as long as they meet those requirements set by Apple. The…

Sure, go for it. Just don’t be surprised when consoles start becoming a super-expensive luxury item again, since the walled gardens you want to break up subsidize their development and manufacture.

You forgot the part where Epic’s shop would be free to: dodge the Appleville taxes (cut for maintaining OS/device); evade the Appleville customs and enforcement (app verification for malware/viruses/quality); ignore the Appleville police (lack of accountability to Apple); freely surveil the Appleville citizens without…

Ultima and Wing Commander were contemporaries! I had a CD that came with a CD-ROM drive from early on that had Ultima VI and Wing Commander III on the same disc. Good times!

You’re missing the point, by a wide margin. Parents, schools, and businesses are just three of the groups that would want a device where sideloading or secondary stores are not an option, where they can lock down what’s available on the device. There’s a specific market, and everybody buying the device knows that it’s…

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You mean the cut based on the same cut by every other marketplace? Including Google, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Steam, physical brick-and-mortar stores...

You’re probably right, but it wouldn’t be due to actions by either Google or Apple, aside from providing quality products. Epic can’t compete, so they try to throw their money around.

The ecosystem includes the audits to ensure no malware, no information harvesting, and no inappropriate content, and all of that is inherently threatened by the presence of a secondary source of content.

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