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Mr. Sweeney is welcome to make his own mobile operating system and charge whatever rate he wants.

He's personally worth $5.3 billion.

Surely that's enough to take Android Open Source Project and make his own version.

It's easy to burn down a store that you think charges too much. It's harder to make a new store that people will like. Maybe take the high road, Mr. Sweeney.

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And you are welcome to build your own underwater fibre optic cables and network infrastructure if you want net neutrality. ISPs should be allowed to block any website for any reason or no reason whatsoever, including asking website owners for a cut of their revenue and block them if they refuse. /s

Android is literally open source, and any rooted phone can get a new operating system. Can you name a lower barrier to entry in any industry?

+1, Sweeney took the low road by violating his contract with Apple, removing Apple IAP from the existing Fortnight on people's iOS devices, and generally making a point by doing it the wrong way. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Epic didn't remove IAP... they advertised a lower price elsewhere, which is against guidelines (which is not a contract), and did so via an unreviewed update.

Note that updates via webview or JS code are explicitly allowed by contracts, and what Fortnite did is very likely to have used that mechanism.

Check out the latest filing by Apple. Epic removed the IAP from Apple and only is allowing the Epic store purchases.

That's interesting. I wonder if they changed it. I was going off screenshots like this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfTZ1pwWkAI3aUH.jpg:large

Either way violates guidelines

Although this time his own OS should have basic features and lessons learned by prior entrants in that sector. Like, if you start an online store have such basic stuff as a shopping cart. Obvious stuff like that.

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