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Comment by ksec | Hacker News Reader

Apple has done it before. So I am not surprised.

John Gruber ( and only him ) [1] suggest Epic was making things up when Apple would terminate Sign in with Apple on EPIC's App. While I dont fully side with EPIC on their case against Apple, on this issue alone it was clear the fault was on Apple [2].

And imagine you are in a dispute with Apple on this matter for longer than 30days without resolution, the time your iCloud would keep your backup before it is completely wipe out due to Account termination.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09/29/epic-games-unre...

[2] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/131179493779778355...

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If you read Tim's tweet, it says in the policy "Ability to ENABLE Apple services [like] Sign in with Apple". This makes sense as Epic no longer has the ability to enable SIWA on new apps.

Says nothing about termination of SIWA on current apps as SIWA will continue to work on existing Apps.

I think Tim wasn't being too honest here.

What does the following mean?

> Apple is entirely within its rights to terminate Epic Games, Inc.'s developer account and all related functionality, but Sign In with Apple will continue to function for Apple customers for the next two weeks.

"Within rights to terminate [...] all related functionality" is completely different than "Apple HAS TERMINATED [...] all related functionality". Upon terminating "all related functionality", SIWA will still work for two weeks, but no where in the letter said they have "terminated all related functionality". Apple chose to keep it alive.

Tim Sweeny took this and misled the public saying "oh yeah, Apple is terminating it for sure" which is not the case.

SIWA will still work for two weeks - that doesn't imply Apple might have terminated SIWA two weeks after that?

SIWA will still work for two weeks should Apple decide to "terminate all related functionality". Apple did not decide to "terminate all related functionality".

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