If thing are as reported, I'd say it is a half measure from Apple.Īpple could play nice and accept Epic again in the App Store, assuming they don't repeat any shenanigans-and stop bitching in social media. He's exploiting children with IAPs and making out like he's their hero by taking away their games while most of them have been stuck at home so he can make more money from them. It's the gamers that pay Apple's commission and the ones that made Sweeney a billionaire. It's gamers and content creators that lose on this in the end, the execs walk away from this as billionaires no matter the eventual outcome.
They aren't directing the same vitriol at Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo and the control they have over their gaming platforms all because Epic feels like they deserve a commission and Apple doesn't. Epic makes good and popular products and they are just burning so many bridges unnecessarily because of some misguided greed and pettiness, which they don't direct at anyone else but Apple. It's so sad when accomplished people turn into maniacs like this. Lost their case, stated their intent to appeal and then expect to get welcomed back so they can try using external payment links to deprive Apple of commission revenue again and have gone straight back to trashing them publicly when they've been turned down. They broke their contract, publicly trashed Apple, forced multiple Apple executives into excessive amounts of unnecessary court proceedings:
Sweeney must have spent too much time in his own metaverse and lost his sense of how the real world works. OMG they shot themselves in the foot, and decided to reload. So Apple won’t let them back in because EPIC is appealing.