UK is Lagging Behind Rest of World in Tackling Big Tech, Says Fortnite Chief (ft.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/1123215/uk-is-lagging-behind-rest-of-world-in-tackling-big-tech-says-fortnite-chief
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/364a61f5-9966-4a91-9b26-41f5bf3fb79f
The CMA postponed until next year whether to require Apple to allow third-party app stores or sideloading, unlike the EU's Digital Markets Act. Fortnite remains unavailable on UK iOS devices following Epic's years-long dispute over Apple's 30% commission fees. The regulator said it would prioritize forcing Apple and Google to allow alternative payment systems.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/364a61f5-9966-4a91-9b26-41f5bf3fb79f
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> the Quan.
Is the Quan the one where Mohammed doinks pigs?
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No, Quan is some Asian dude who pimps out his little sister.
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How did you get that so backwards?
[1] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/0345252/us-spy-chief-gabbard-says-uk-agreed-to-drop-backdoor-mandate-for-apple
SUAFO (Score:3)
Things Tim Sweeney needs to do.
Sweeney is scum. Talking about the enemy of "BIG TECH" whilst using every filthy tactic under the sun to monetise that Fortnite noise is just.... pots and kettles levels of disengenious, self-serving, garbage from a dysfunctional man-child.
Not even raising the brazen, scummy, tactic of bribing publishers to secure exclusive releases.
@ Tim "The Baby" Sweeney - "You mad BRO?"
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I'm no fan of Sweeny, but I'm less of a fan of Apple. If a few more kids getting bilked out of dollars and failing school due to Fortnite distractions is the price we need to pay for sideloading then I am all for it.
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If Tim Sweeney wants full openness from app stores, then all stores should be o pen. Including the Fortnite store. I should be able to get dances from other stores if I want.
Given the money Fortnite makes for Epic and Tim, it should be fair play to demand the same. Fortnite is like the #1 game after all.
Speaking as a British person... (Score:3)
...I thoroughly support whatever measure is necessary to keep Tim flaming Sweeney comically going "whaaaaahhhhhh!!!" every two weeks. Why people are taking this self-interested hustler seriously beats me.
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Every so often he is right. It's hard to decide which turd sandwich on this menu is the least shitty.
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Thing is - this kind of behaviour is what I want to avoid by buying iOS. If I wanted multiple stores - well that capability already exists, I buy Android. There's no monopoly, I can buy an Android device tomorrow. I can buy one right now online.
The argument is made that if alt stores become available then it's a user choice as to whether to install them or not - no-one's forcing me to and I could just stick with Apple's. Well, this behaviour from Sweeney is exactly the counter-argument - the moment alt s
Prioritise? (Score:2)
"The regulator said it would prioritize"
If its anything like our other regulators in the UK then that means they might have agreed to a time for the meeting to discuss in about 2 years. At which point a number of the higher level execs realise that if they push it they might not get a cushy non-exec directorship in one of the companies they're regulating when they leave and so nothing is done. See: Ofcom, Ofwat.
Really? Epic's store = advancement? (Score:2)
Come the f- on Sweeny. Your "big tech" firm's beef with another "big tech" firm just isn't that important.
Freeware vs shareware (Score:2)
Tim Sweeney embraced a crusade for both Google and Apple to give the world access to their app stores for free. Yet, he charges 12% for every developer to put things on his Epic store (after the developer made its first USD1M).
Part of the success modern mobile devices is their app store ecosystem. Before that, Java based apps were rare and scarce, mostly offered by the carrier or the managed service (such as Blackberry Enterprise users). When the first iPhone came, right on its heels came George Hotz, the I
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WTH comment section?!
But their quota on... (Score:1)
Machete slayings, honor killings, grooming of minors, rape, pedophilia, mob beatings, sharia law, and locking people up for complaining about it... IS FUCKING ON POINT! ;-D
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They would probably have a lot less of some of that stuff if the population had guns.
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Arming your population as a remedy for having introduced systemic conflict is probably not the best way forward.
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I disagree.
Re: But their quota on... (Score:2)
Itâ(TM)s ok - we are a lot safer in the UK than you are in the US, assuming thatâ(TM)s where you are with that Fox âNewsâ(TM) propaganda nonsense.
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He might be an inarticulate AC, but he's not wrong. In case you didn't know, America, at it's best, isn't built around the need of sheeple for safety. It's best form is built around freedom. The UK has clearly lost freedom of speech, mostly lost body autonomy, and they are also working on your freedom of movement. As you continue with massive Arab and African immigration and pack in new islamic newcomers, you'll find it'll turn to conflict in the streets and at the ballot box. Multiculturalism doesn't work.
well behind (Score:2)
Apparently this guy thinks the key to everything is more regulation. He may have a well behind, but the UK is getting their butts kicked.
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> REAP what you have SEWN .
Soooooo ... some hemp shirts? Maybe a tasteful napkin? What have they SEWN?
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Funniest, most mouth-breathing, brain-dead, response I have seen yet.
Just, you know, perfect. Keep doing whatever insane, clueless, ranting it is you do and we'll keep laughing. At you. Specifically AT you. Not with.
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Fantastic. Keep them coming. May soon have enough for "Lunatic Rant of the Day"
Pro-tip, chuckledink - You may want to spend your remaining braincell on researching the fundamental difference between "SEWN" and "SOWN".
Whackjobs. Ignorant whackjobs all the way down.
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Maybe wipe the own-goal mud off your face first?
I mean.. you have the literary skills of a toddler but here you are raving about... whatever brainfart it is that is causing you discomfort....
Clueless, ignorant angry and raving. Pretty much the go to for jobless, unemployable, welfare-sucking, inffectual sub incels these days. Anything for the "attention" they so desperately crave.
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Its so cute watching you flail... ;-D
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Haha
AC chuckledink outed itself. I mean... there's stupid and then there's stoooopid...
Imagine being the parent of something this dumb?
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but our conservative politicans (the small c is intentional) only copy what you merkins have already done,