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Apple reverses course, unbanning Epic: “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sig (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It only took the EU announcing they were investigating for Apple to change their mind. Wonder why that is...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can't find a link coordinating it, pls share if you have evidence that epic backtracked

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Massive corporations feuding on a shitty social media platform is perhaps the least interesting thing, IMO.

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 10 months ago

Seriously. Just let me know when there are more good games on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's a shame how all the tech/games communities is actually ShitAssQuoteUnquoteNewsSource "reporting" on ShitAssCorp being shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Even Mark Gurman can't resist click bait.

Epic talking to Apple and agreeing to follow the rules in order to get their developer account back is not Apple "reversing course." It's Epic correcting their mistake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there an article explaining what rule they broke?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

points to the tweets pictured

I don't subscribe to Bloomberg, but I can only assume he's talking about it there, too, if tweets don't count.

Moral of the story: Don't tell (or even imply) to one of the most powerful companies in the world that you don't intend to abide by an upcoming rule change, even if you're certain you're right.

Thankfully, Apple's crap proposal is still just a proposal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The tweet didn't make any sense to me since it didn't seem like a developer whining about your policies was ban worthy. It sounds like Epic hadn't actually broken any rules yet.

EU regulators must feel like they're babysitting two spoiled brats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

EU regulators must feel like they're babysitting two spoiled brats.

We are in complete agreement there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Calling apple's response in the EU "hot garbage" does not equate to "we are not following your rules" unless I am missing something

[–] EnderofGames 7 points 10 months ago

Reposting from above:

Epic agreed to follow the rules before the ban, not the other way around. In fact, the email cited was February 23rd, over two weeks ago.

Apple 100% made the move in bad faith, and are saving face with “we decided to unban them because they agreed to follow the rules”.