@asultana121x: That's not Warner's responsibility. Their responsibility is make money. If their business model changes and other businesses who rely on that model can't stay afloat, that's not Warner's problem. I'm not trying to see theaters go under, but we can't just keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. Theaters aren't viable right now. If a studio wants a movie to make money, it has to do so another way than to rely on the theaters. It's not going to work.

Just release the damn movies on digital storefronts. This isn't that hard. Trolls made more in its opening weekend than Tenet has made since release. I'd have paid the $30 to see Tenet at home. By going theater-only, they decided they'd rather have $0 from me.

I really don't understand Apple's objection to game streaming. I understand in this case it isn't exactly about the streaming itself, but the use of private APIs. That's a legit rule violation, but it's also just a means to an end in this case. I could understand Apple's position if they had a competing service, or even maybe had a competing service on the horizon. But they don't, and they don't have a library of games that doesn't already run natively. I guess it's just to keep users paying for games and Arcade, but the streaming services don't exactly compete with mobile games.

@toonami4life: Apple doesn't block websites in their browser. Safari will utilize Google Safe Browsing results to warn users of malicious websites, but they don't otherwise tamper with your browsing. There's no reason to believe they'd start doing that. It would set a terrible precedent.

Not a Fortnite fan but it sure looks better than the "please pretend this color is purple" special edition Xbox. While the console itself didn't look bad, the control is just downright awful. A purple so dark it might as well be black, with lettering nearly the same color. What a trainwreck of color scheme.

If I were on the market for a Switch and didn't hate Epic, I'd consider this one.

I didn't have any interest in the movie, but it was playing at the drive-in and I wanted to do something. No way in hell am I going to any theater. So I saw it. I actually really enjoyed it.

@basketballfan: Unity runs on consoles. I grew up playing UT. I also didn't say Epic would go out of business, but they sure have plenty to lose.

@basketballfan: It's basically mutually assured destruction. Epic will lose too if it can't effectively target iOS devices. Developers will flock to Unity because it'll be the one to support both mobile platforms.

@waven101: The timeline of events suggests Epic did not expect Google to pull Fortnite like they expected Apple too. Epic had an ad and lawsuit ready to go the moment Apple pulled Fortnite. There was no such ad attacking Google, and the lawsuit took hours after Google removed Fortnite. However, for the sake of argument, let's say Epic did expect both to react the way they did.

So?

Google has majority market share AND allows sideloading apps. Epic tried avoiding Google's store for a long time, and eventually found it more effective just to join the store and give Google their cut. They already know how well not being in those stores has worked out for them.

So they essentially want to have their software in the official storefronts, but don't want to pay the price that they agreed to. That's not how it works. And they somehow don't have a problem Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo doing the EXACT same thing.

They target 8 platforms: iOS, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, macOS, Windows, and Linux. 4 of those 8 do not allow unapproved software. 7 of those 8 take 30% of the sale as the cost of being part of the official storefront. And somehow Apple is the bad guy?

@waven101: Chance at what exactly? Creating a competing app store? I don't see anybody complaining about Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo doing exactly the same thing. Nobody says you have to own an iPhone. Apple doesn't even have majority market share. How could it possibly be a monopoly? When Microsoft lost its case regarding Internet Explorer in the 90's, it had somewhere in the neighborhood of 95% market share, and it was still a tough case. Apple has about 40% market share. Nobody is being forced to by an iPhone. If you don't like Apple's rules, don't play in their playground.