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> I can't help but think that the whole thing is playing out exactly like Epic had hoped.

It seems to be hurting them more than Apple: Epic Games Asks Court to Allow Fortnite Back on the App Store: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/05/epic-injuction-fortnite...

> Meanwhile, Epic now has a very good reason to collect a working email address from every past iOS customer

One of the biggest reason I love using Sign-In With Apple is so that I don't have to give my email to any one else.

All of the other news, like hampering advertisers, is good for users but bad for companies and developers who like to prey on users.

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> All of the other news, like hampering advertisers, is good for users but bad for companies and developers who like to prey on users.

I think it's all a mixed bag, and it might be naive of users to assume Apple is always going to protect them from things that go against their best interests.

Somehow Apple's arduous review process misses privacy exploits like when Facebook or Tiktok or some other random ad company does it. Shoot, they even rolled back some big privacy change in iOS 14 because Facebook complained about it.

I dunno, this will sound stupid, but my primary reason against the "closed ecosystem" is that I can't run a decent Tetris app on my iPhone. It must be the official N3twork licensed Tetris app or noooothing. That sucks.

> Shoot, they even rolled back some big privacy change in iOS 14 because Facebook complained about it.

I must have missed that news — could you share a link?

https://bgr.com/2020/09/03/ios-14-privacy-feature-apps-track...

It's super crappy, though, to screw users as collateral damage in an attempt to spite Epic.

I could see disabling new signups, but breaking existing users...geeze.

Do you remember the time when Google mass-banned people’s Google accounts for participating in a chat event with the YouTuber Markiplier?

When you restrict your logins to a single company’s OAuth, you’re giving that company incredible power over you- it’s generally not a good thing, except in, perhaps, corporate scenarios where revoking that power unilaterally is a good thing.

> One of the biggest reason I love using Sign-In With Apple is so that I don't have to give my email to any one else.

I have an infinite supply of email addresses so I can give a unique one to whoever asks and then kill it if it's abused. This way I don't have to tell Apple whenever I logon to Epic or fear that Apple will revoke my access to Epic because of a random adolescent outburst not really befitting of a company of that size.

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