Except only a small handful of people will remember Apple used the commercial, but a large majority know what 1984 was.

Really? People have complained constantly about Destiny and the way engrams have worked. They were basically selling cosmetics with a gambling aspect. I’m not sure how that is better. I think they have tweaked the system recently, but out of the gate they were intentionally making use of gambling mechanics.  They…

Sure, but I’m not sure how feasible that is for a game like Fortnite BR which is entirely online. Running servers isn’t free and hosting locally isn’t going to work well for a game with up to 100 players in a match.

So you don’t think there should be any F2P games? I agree there are people with issues out there, but you can only protect them so much. There are people that obsessively do any number of things with games (e.g. obsess over achievements, levels, rankings, etc...) and just about anything else. As long as gambling or…

I don’t like Fortnite or any other game that takes advantage of vulnerable people to solicit in-game cosmetic purchases.

Sure, but that’s the definition of arbitrary. If Apple’s defense for these rules, as they stated themselves, is to protect users from shady merchants and payment processors then why are digital goods different than physical goods and other services? There is no difference which is almost certainly what Epic will be…

But that’s kind of an arbitrary rule is it not? If Apple’s defense, as stated by themselves, is that the rules are to protect users from shady merchants how does selling a physical good differ from a digital good? Also, not all of those companies are selling physical goods.  Really, only Amazon and Best Buy do.  The…

They’re literally providing their own infrastructure for you to use their services. Any company in this situation will always ask for a bigger cut because they need it to facilitate everything else.

Just because you made the rules doesn’t make them legal which is what Epic is challenging here.

Their policies apply to everything and everyone equally, it’s not like they’re singling out Epic.

I don’t have the time or emotional bandwidth to delve into just how fucking stupid this video is, enlisting the spirit of resistance to totalitarian government (already diluted by appearing in an advertisement) to...get people onside in their quest for some more money.

Epic is in essence demanding Apple provide the distribution architecture for a free to play game which only Epic believes they should profit from.

There can’t be two sets of rules, one for ‘trustworthy’ devs and one for ‘untrustworthy’ devs so to speak.

Yes.  12%.

Nah.  If they feel the rules are unfair then they had their position before hand.

1) They make iPhones powerful enough to run Epic’s games. Without that, there is no market, period. 100% of nothing is still nothing.

Citation? Because I’m pretty sure it’s just 12% and they take their engine fee out of that 12% if you license their engine.  No sliding scale and not higher than 12%.  At least that was how was when it launched. 

Well, that’s really janky and cumbersome method, but, sure, you can say there are other options. It’s just a terrible one.

It seems they have already filed a lawsuit. This was clearly a set-up to force the issue. They knew exactly what Apple would do and had legal papers ready to go.

“What you are doing is worth nothing to us, not a damn cent”.