I'm surprised so many people here are against Epic (and everywhere else really). If they succeed, they'll get app store overhead cut down to 1/3 of what it was and that would be great for the industry.
Yes they are breaking the deal they signed, and yes the stunt seems a bit foolhardy, but sometimes you have to break rules to disrupt entrenched practices.
People are against epic for two core reasons:
1: End of the day, Epic is basically a puppet corperation run by a Chinese company. 40% don't sound like much until you remember that a majority of shareholders care more about the money than morals, so getting that 11% means 'as long as Tencent/CCP are making decisions for profit, we will go with the same thing'. This isn't even including the scummy stuff involving the Epic Store.
2: End of the day, once more: what Epic is doing is breaking contract law. They knew the terms to use the Apple Store
PLATFORM, and they chose to forcibly end those terms. I presume Google is much the same, with them breaking ToS with Google.
While nobody likes Apple, and a decent share dislike Google, neither of them are actively breaking the law in this situation. Yes, all 3 companies are greedy, immoral, etc. But neither Apple nor Google went into this specifically aiming to intentionally break contract law THEN gloat about it arrogantly.
The 1984-tnite video speaks volumes that they had it prepared almost to the minute that Apple took them off the store. This is a giant publicity stunt in its worst form. I said this in the other topic but there's a trick in fascism (Why is this relevant? 1984 is about fascism) where a fascist group will attempt to do good things for you, convince you overthrowing the current establishment's for your own good. Then when they get their way, you don't realize that you're in it worse, and smiling as you eat dog kibble out of their hands instead of meatballs.
Yes, the Video implies that Apple (and now Google) are the "Fascists", but in reality, it's gaslighting. They're trying to convince you who the fascists are, while their own actions imply that they are just as bad, and they're posing themselves as righteous champions so you come clamoring and worshipping them.
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If Epic truly thought they were in the right, they'd let the court case speak for them.
Instead the first thing they did was bring attention to their fans in the 1984tnite video "We are attempting to overthrow the oppressors of Apple!" No. They're trying to turn this into another social justice war. Instead of letting the law speak for itself, they're trying to rile up people so, once they inevitably lose, they will probably claim 'this is a sign of the oppression' or something like that, and convince people to join them on their new mobile platform.
This is generally just a giant ploy. Mark my words.
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No company here is morally in the right, but Epic's the most morally incorrect of the bunch.
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