[benjismith]

I find myself wondering if Apple applied some kind of back-channel pressure to oust Riccitiello.

With Unity at such a privileged position in the developer ecosystem of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, I can imagine that Apple execs were pissed off that Unity would do something so stupid and shortsighted to jeopardize their developer ecosystem.

I haven't heard anyone float that idea yet, and the term "Apple" doesn't appear anywhere (yet!) in the comments of this post, so it doesn't seem to be on most people's minds. But still, I wonder...

[valyagolev]

an important theory is that Unity's initial actions were prompted by Apple's App Tracking Transparency changing the gamedev market and jeopardizing Unity's recent ad-driven monetization strategy, and that's how Apple's on everyone's mind around those news

[ocdtrekkie]

I mean FWIW, they also probably really aren't thrilled with any game engines likely handing market share back to Epic, who is trying to put them in front of the Supreme Court for antitrust.