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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
Terrifik
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Serioiusly try to use porn card aganist a women judge to bible thump her when she might be part lgbtq
Internet_Loner
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This bitch Katherine (Apple's main lawyer) got paid $28 million last year, fuck her and the company she works for.
She's probably saved them billions.
Marissa Moira
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In the end though, the decision on the banana was split.
I'm starting to hate itch almost as much as I hate Tim, not gonna lie.
They posted this in response to the accusations of hosting "offensive and sexualized content" in the hearing today
I would find it if funny I didn't know their opinions in regards to offensive and sexualized content that they made known barely two years ago (Which of course they walked back on because money).
They posted this in response to the accusations of hosting "offensive and sexualized content" in the hearing today
I would find it if funny I didn't know their opinions in regards to offensive and sexualized content that they made known barely two years ago (Which of course they walked back on because money).
I ain't got any hope for itch since this is the kind of game they like featuring because it aligns with their politics. The most vocal people on it are mostly circlejerking sjw devs who may or may not have been to art school of some sort.
Don’t forget any games made by any of the cows found in the Animal Control and Rat King forums, I know that both Eevee and GlitchedPuppet have accounts on Itch.
itch was been super woke and "right side of history" for years, how could you miss any of that?
although a lot was probably to generate buzz, because no one serious seriously cares about that dump.
That conversation between the lawyer and Epic guy about if a naked banana is inappropriate has got to be the single most idiotic thing ever talked about in a court. It's like if this shit was used as evidence in a murder case or something.
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Nowhere does it state if the Banana consented to being peeled or not.
wonder how many 12 year olds going through withdraw are coaxing their mothers outside a verizon for an android switch
Fornite removed from iPhone App Store
Epic Games said it was taking Apple to court over monopolistic policies.www.bbc.com
Apple has removed Fortnite from its app store, essentially making one of the world's most popular games unplayable on its devices.
It came after an update that allowed players to buy in-game currency at a lower rate if they bought direct from maker Epic Games - bypassing Apple.
Epic appeared to know the ban would come, announcing it had filed a legal complaint minutes after the removal.
Apple takes a 30% cut of all sales from its compulsory in-store payment system.
Apple said Epic had taken the "unfortunate step of violating the App Store Guidelines".
Those guidelines ban any payment system apart from Apple's own, and has been the subject of several high-profile rows between developers and Apple.
In addition to tweeting the legal complaint it filed in a California court, Epic also announced the imminent in-game screening of a short film titled Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite - a play on George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The novel is about a dystopian society that controls its citizens and tolerates no dissent - and was itself referenced by Apple in a famous television ad in the year 1984, when the young company styled itself as taking on then-dominant IBM.
Epic Games directly referenced that advertisement in its legal complaint, writing: "Apple has become what it once railed against: the behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation."
The court documents allege that Apple effectively runs a monopoly in both deciding what apps can appear on iPhones and demanding its own payment system - with the relatively high 30% cut - is used.
But the company said it was not seeking financial compensation.
"Epic is seeking injunctive relief to allow fair competition in these two key markets that directly affect hundreds of millions of consumers and tens of thousands, if not more, of third-party app developers," it said.
But the documents also hint at a possible larger goal.
"But for Apple's illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing app store on iOS devices, which would allow iOS users to download apps in an innovative, curated store and would provide users the choice to use Epic's or another third-party's in-app payment processing tool, " it says.
Epic Games has already attempted to disrupt the PC gaming market with the launch of its Epic Games Store, taking on the dominant player, Steam, in an attempt to lure players away with free games, which have often been popular, top-rated titles.
The Apple app store move comes less than two months after a high-profile developer railed against Apple's rejection of an email app from the store over payment systems.
The days-long standoff between Hey email and Apple reignited the uneasy relationship between many developers and one of the two dominant app store owners.
Google's Android system also uses Google's payment system for app store purchases, from which Google takes a cut - but Android allows developers to point users to other payment options.
I actually don't think it's that many at the moment. I was looking at a 2018 report and only 13% of players use PC and 8% mobile phones. The rest are consoles.
My Tyler McVicker speculative bullshit™ as to why Tim is doing this: I think Tim is starting to see the writing on the wall and preparing for the end or significant reduction in users in the console market. He is trying to secure a future market based mostly on PC's and mobile, which he cannot monopolize if a third of the former and 100% of the latter continues to be a walled gardens.
Either that or he is retarded and I'm as big of a retard for overestimating him.
I wish I could find it again without trawling through hours of documentation and videos, but that's not it.
Somewhere in the project Liberty planning, it's mentioned that Epic wants to, in the future, invest in 'augmented reality' for the mobile market. It's part of his metaverse rot.
So, a game for mobiles - for the sake of a name, let's call it Fortnite Go - is a game that's in development that they want to get a better deal on the IAP for.
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