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

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

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10062367

Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Apple said one of the reasons they terminated our developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because we publicly criticized their proposed DMA compliance plan. Apple cited this X post from this thread written by Tim Sweeney. Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again.

Epic breached the terms of its agreements with Apple and Google to kick off its lawsuits against them in 2020, and now that Sweeney is openly complaining about Apple's terms for third-party app stores Apple doesn't trust Epic not to breach those too. Seems reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Please clarify it to me because I read this debacle as Apple blackmailing developers HARD into not talking bad things about the company. I get they're evil and petty but I'm having a hard time to believe they're this childish and stupid, specially with the DMA knocking at their doors.

[–] [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.

[–] Tathas 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."

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