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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This isn't some random developer, it's a developer that has already breached a contract with Apple. It's reasonable for Apple to be wary of entering into another contract with them when the CEO is publicly complaining about the terms.

There's definitely a case to be made that Epic shouldn't need an Apple developer account to make their own app store, but Apple is well within its rights to deny them an account based on their history.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I can just see them responding to the EU like, "Yeah, we'll allow other people to build app stores for iOS. They just need a dev account that we won't approve. That's not us specifically blocking alternate app stores though."