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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10062367

Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (62 children)

Sucks to be an iOS developer. Apple will never give up it's 30% of your money. EVER.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (42 children)

    And the flat $100 fee, which disproportionately iffects small devs

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    I took an app development course in college. Everything was android and I tested on my own device, except one project had to be on apple. I managed to snag an ancient iPhone off a friend to test, but no, turns out you need a dev account to even be able to load your own code on your phone. Fuck apple forever.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    You mean when you want to make it available to download in the only way Apple makes possible? It's not like you can just send the apk to someone to run on their iPhone, if you want to share the app with others on an iPhone, you have to use the Apple App Store, you have to pay them $100 + the cost of an Apple computer. Just to share your FOSS app with your friends.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Did this change? It was about a decade ago. I could develop and test on an emulated device, but testing on hardware was 100% locked behind a $100 paywall.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It mentions the apple developer program which is what I assume the 100 dollar subscription is. I keep seeing people say dev accounts are free but any tools beyond the dev environment are paywalled.

    I wasn't even talking about app stores; I never published anything to Google play, just loaded through usb from android studio. The apple program didn't allow even that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Every other store charges 30% including Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Google Play, etc. Epic doesn’t and they aren’t profitable, so I don’t know why people pile on Apple.

    Edit: the downvotes are funny. Why? You don’t like someone pointing out the truth?

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