I'm going to put this comment on every Apple vs Epic thread from now on, regardless of how many internet points I lose.
Instead of trying to ruin Apples ecosystem, Epic should try and develop their own.
If Valve can make the Steam Deck, Epic can make a Fortnite Phone.
Epic could then choose to make the phone as open or locked down as they like. They could have their own app store policies, and they could allow any payment platforms they like.
It could be an Android fork, or they could have a look at what is going on in the Linux phone community.
Would it be a success in the market place? I just think that depends on Epics choices it makes along the way. But I do know that millions of kids would rather have a cool gaming phone rather than an old fashioned iPhone.
> Instead of trying to ruin Apples ecosystem, Epic should try and develop their own.
So instead of 2 silos, you now have 3. How does that improve anything?
The whole point is to move away from this idea that developers are apple's "ecosystem", like cows in a cow farm. They are not cattle, but independent people with the right to compete in a fair market, much like how apple is competing in a fair market, which is provided by general market state regulations.
> So instead of 2 silos, you now have 3. How does that improve anything?
Only on HN could you possibly find people arguing that an additional competitor entering the market somehow “reducing competition and not making anything better” while also arguing that attempting to use the legal system to destroy one of those competitors’ unique offerings to customers and force them to adopt the model of their competitor, leaving no customer choice for the curated-ecosystem model, is good and pro-competitive.
Instead of trying to ruin Apples ecosystem, Epic should try and develop their own.
If Valve can make the Steam Deck, Epic can make a Fortnite Phone.
Epic could then choose to make the phone as open or locked down as they like. They could have their own app store policies, and they could allow any payment platforms they like.
It could be an Android fork, or they could have a look at what is going on in the Linux phone community.
Would it be a success in the market place? I just think that depends on Epics choices it makes along the way. But I do know that millions of kids would rather have a cool gaming phone rather than an old fashioned iPhone.