Epic is free to sue who ever they whish. That means nothing. The argument was that 3rd party app stores would somehow affect apples appstore quality. That's false. If apple would allow installing apps from unknown sources and just give ugly warnings then, thus letting 3rd party appstores on ios, it would have no effect on qpple appstore content.
> The argument was that 3rd party app stores would somehow affect apples appstore quality. That's false.
With Apple in control, the developer faces the choice to play by Apple's rules, or lose out on the money to be made in their walled garden.
With Apple no longer in control, the user now faces the choice to play by the developer's rules, or lose out on the app.
That said, I'm actually not a fan of the walled garden approach, and won't be buying an iPhone in the forseeable future. It's just that I do understand the appeal.
>With Apple in control, the developer faces the choice to play by Apple's rules, or lose out on the money to be made in their walled garden.
>With Apple no longer in control, the user now faces the choice to play by the developer's rules, or lose out on the app.
Android has proven this is not true. Google has the same policies as Apple and does allow alternative app stores. Turns out the world works in a common sense way and everything turned out fine.
Do you think the existence of the epic store on wjncows has had an effect on the content of steam?
A really good example right now is riot. They distribute through their own launcher on PC rather than on steam. They have two sizeable games on mobile right now (wild rift and TFT). In a world where these are downloadable from the riot launcher on iOS rather than the app store, it seems likely riot (and other major publishers who do the same on PC) would follow suit? I don't see how having an app store without hearthstone, TFT, fortnite is the same quality as one with.
Instead of trying to compare to other totally different products, do the comparison to Android. Has any 3rd party appstore affected play store in any way? No. Start your argument from that fact.
fortnite was in the app store until epic game's account was terminated for terms-of-service violations, so whatever point you're trying to make here isn't correct.
The original argument was that 3rd party appstores would somehow affect the main appstore quality. And that argument is bs as Android demonstrates. So, please read the discussion and only comment once you understand the topic.
