@so_hai: It's not possible to sell outside Apple's app store on iOS devices. Side loading software is not possible without jailbreaking the device.

@dmblum1799: Their goal is pointless. They want to be able to open Epic Games Store on iOS. If you read their lawsuit briefs, it's clear their intention was to use the removal of Fortnite as a pretext to their lawsuit to force Apple to remove some of iOS's key security features. Namely, requiring all software to be signed by an Apple-supplied certificate.

The didn't - but should have - expected this outcome. Apple rejects an approval when your app does something wrong. Honest mistakes happen, and reviewers aren't always right. They remove an app when your app is doing something willfully wrong, such as using over-the-air update data to add your own payment processor without going through Apple's approval process. They terminate your developer certificate when you're willfully breaking rules and have shown yourself to be a developer that Apple does not want to do business with.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all take 30% for the rights to operate on their platforms. Epic's argument seems to be that it's ok for Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo to do this because they lose money on hardware. But the law doesn't give a damn about profitability. Apple choosing to make profit off both hardware and software is not illegal.

I used to be a fan of Epic. But between their Epic Games Store exclusivity bullshit, and now them thinking the rules shouldn't apply to them... **** Epic. Cancerous sleazeball company not willing to play fair.

"It's unclear how long Tenet will be in American theaters, and for how long."

Screw Flanders, right?

No proofreading today?

> Two of the largest online retailers, Pinduoduo and Taobao, suddenly stopped stocking the players began to use the game to host online versions of the ongoing Hong Kong protests, however.

What they meant to say is "we are an essentially bankrupt business."

@Xylymphydyte: 20GB of game, 2028GB of Chinese spyware.

@mogan: The article is written in English, so it's safe to assume an English-speaking audience. Given that this game is pretty much exclusive to China - you *can* play it outside China, but from what I gather, it's not very good - a well-written article would include some explanation as to WHY none of the audience has heard about it. Instead, it leads straight in with "biggest FPS in the world" right in the headline. It absolutely reeks of advertisement because it is full of grandstanding and lacks awareness of the audience.

Edit: In fact, you go to GameSpot's page on Crossfire, and there is nothing there. This is a game that is so huge, that GameSpot has never covered it before. Must have been blinded by its brilliance I guess.

@mogan: This "huge" game that nobody has ever heard of. It's even written like an ad, but I suppose that's because it's all Eddie knows how to write.

This article sure smells like it was paid for by Tencent.

@m4a5: Think of it this way: Epic is buying your copy for you, so just pirate it. I normally don’t condone such action, but since it doesn’t hurt the developer in this case, have at it.