their iPhone is preventing them from playing the game
Epic are the ones preventing Fortnite from being available on iPhones. They have no one to blame but themselves for the way they planned to intentionally break the App Store rules and had a lawsuit ready to go when it was rightly removed from the store.
Funny someone with your username would advocate for people who outright bought a piece of hardware to be controlled by the manufacturer in terms of what they can do with their device, while also forcefully taking an enormous cut of any transactions involving it.
Epic has forced Apple to give users more options, and that’s a good thing. Epic are usually the bad guys - this time they weren’t.
Epic intentionally broke the rules of the contract they agreed to, and had a lawsuit ready to go as soon as Apple rightfully removed their game from the store over the breach of contract. Epic were not the good guys.
You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.
You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.
You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.
You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.
You’re looking at this the wrong way.
We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships adb that explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.
What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to nothing more than “because we said so”.
Furthermore, why are you so eager to lick corporate boot over this? Just accept the fact that corps are fucking consumers over by trying to redefine terms like “purchase” and “own” to mean something other than their existing widely-accepted definitions.
If I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I do expect to be able to own it and install what I goddamn well please, corporate approval be damned. That’s why I buy Pixels and standard PC hardware, because I can unlock the bootloader/disable secure boot and install what I goddamn well please. Can’t do that with any iPhone, and rarely a Mac, because it goes against what Daddy Apple hath decreed.
Additionally, it is also acceptable to acknowledge the former and simultaneously acknowledge that Epic is a shitty company. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
I was about to give a genuine reply, then I read your second sentence and now I realize there’s no point. Straight to the tired old garbage “boot licker” insults. Have fun.
What are the “arguably bad business practices” here? I would argue that Epic pissing off the manufacturer of the most popular phones in the world, which have over 90% of all in-app purchase $$$$ spent in the mobile world, is bad business practice - not even arguably.
As for anything “benefiting me”……am I not allowed an opinion or to express it unless it’s echo chamber aligned? Is it only allowed if it ignores all logic and is just mindless anger against [insert big corporation name here]?
I wasn’t “licking big corporate boot” in the first place. I said that epic have no one but themselves to blame, which is true. I said if epic did to me what they did to Apple, I’d tell them to get fucked if they ever tried to put stuff on my store again.
No bootlicking at all, but that doesn’t stop some losers from throwing out the term because they hate company X. Apple built a product, and they’re entitled to make it a closed ecosystem. We, as consumers, are entitled to not buy or use their products if we don’t like them, their policies, etc.
People vote with their wallets, and unfortunately for the Apple haters, the votes keep coming up Apple no matter how many recounts there are. Android is right there as an alternative and lets you do basically whatever you want with it, yet outside of third world countries the iPhone rules the roost.
Epic are the ones preventing Fortnite from being available on iPhones. They have no one to blame but themselves for the way they planned to intentionally break the App Store rules and had a lawsuit ready to go when it was rightly removed from the store.
They fucked around and found out.
Funny someone with your username would advocate for people who outright bought a piece of hardware to be controlled by the manufacturer in terms of what they can do with their device, while also forcefully taking an enormous cut of any transactions involving it.
Epic has forced Apple to give users more options, and that’s a good thing. Epic are usually the bad guys - this time they weren’t.
Epic intentionally broke the rules of the contract they agreed to, and had a lawsuit ready to go as soon as Apple rightfully removed their game from the store over the breach of contract. Epic were not the good guys.
You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.
You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.
You’re looking at this the wrong way.
We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships
adbthat explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to nothing more than “because we said so”.
That’s fine to want, but you’re not entitled to it and never should be.
When did I ever say I was entitled to it?
Furthermore, why are you so eager to lick corporate boot over this? Just accept the fact that corps are fucking consumers over by trying to redefine terms like “purchase” and “own” to mean something other than their existing widely-accepted definitions.
If I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I do expect to be able to own it and install what I goddamn well please, corporate approval be damned. That’s why I buy Pixels and standard PC hardware, because I can unlock the bootloader/disable secure boot and install what I goddamn well please. Can’t do that with any iPhone, and rarely a Mac, because it goes against what Daddy Apple hath decreed.
Additionally, it is also acceptable to acknowledge the former and simultaneously acknowledge that Epic is a shitty company. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
I was about to give a genuine reply, then I read your second sentence and now I realize there’s no point. Straight to the tired old garbage “boot licker” insults. Have fun.
I have a genuine question:
How does arguing in support of arguably bad business practices in general benefit you?
What are the “arguably bad business practices” here? I would argue that Epic pissing off the manufacturer of the most popular phones in the world, which have over 90% of all in-app purchase $$$$ spent in the mobile world, is bad business practice - not even arguably.
As for anything “benefiting me”……am I not allowed an opinion or to express it unless it’s echo chamber aligned? Is it only allowed if it ignores all logic and is just mindless anger against [insert big corporation name here]?
I’m giving context to the situation.
Lol, siding with apple here is a bootlicker thing to do.
You guys need to find a new name to call people.
Epic were the bad guys in this scenario. Why are you licking the boot of epic?
Why is anybody licking big corporate boot in the first place? How does that benefit you?
I wasn’t “licking big corporate boot” in the first place. I said that epic have no one but themselves to blame, which is true. I said if epic did to me what they did to Apple, I’d tell them to get fucked if they ever tried to put stuff on my store again.
No bootlicking at all, but that doesn’t stop some losers from throwing out the term because they hate company X. Apple built a product, and they’re entitled to make it a closed ecosystem. We, as consumers, are entitled to not buy or use their products if we don’t like them, their policies, etc.
People vote with their wallets, and unfortunately for the Apple haters, the votes keep coming up Apple no matter how many recounts there are. Android is right there as an alternative and lets you do basically whatever you want with it, yet outside of third world countries the iPhone rules the roost.