[xendipity]

Woah - Epic says they would release a competing app store if it weren't for "Apple's illegal restraints".

> But for Apple’s illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing app store on iOS devices, which would allow iOS users to download apps in an innovative, curated store and would provide users the choice to use Epic’s or another third-party’s in-app payment processing tool."

Part 16, in the Intro.

[mike_d]

Which holds zero legal weight, because Apple can point to them doing exactly that on Android to avoid paying Google Pay fees. They abandoned the plan about a year later because consumers didn't want to use it.

[discardable_dan]

To be fair, if Epic does this I won't want to use it (just like with their desktop client).

[supermatt]

> They abandoned the plan about a year later because consumers didn't want to use it.

Due to high friction caused by android treating third party stores (and the apps instalkled through them) differently to the google play store - which will most definitely be an upcoming complaint...

[maps7]

I hope Apple are forced to allow this

[Talyen42]

I don't.

I really don't want to troubleshoot my parents iPhones after they install arbitrary code from the Alternative App Store #12 after clicking on a banner ad run by an anonymous chinese entity. Holy shit.

[viro]

why? so epic can make more money? they don't care about you ... they just want more money

[Macha]

I mean, they already have the infrastructure on PC, and third party app stores exist on Android already (most notably Amazon's).