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Apple is using Itch.io’s ‘offensive and sexualized’ games as a cudgel against Epic | The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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[+] [email protected] 10 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (3 children)

Usually I'm on the fuck Apple side, but context is important:

Epic hasn’t reviewed all these games, and Apple noted that its standards are different from the Epic Games Store’s. The list includes, per Apple’s attorney, a game called Sisterly Lust that includes “a list of fetishes which include many words that are not appropriate for us to speak in federal courts.”

They are using Epic's failure to ensure that 3rd party store is complying with their own standards guidelines, in a case about Apple's refusal to accept 3rd party stores in iOS. I am against walled gardens myself, but heck they did make a good point with Itch in this case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 years ago

Both companies are acting incredibly cynically here and I don't think apple actually makes a good point.

Epic only has this partnership with itch so they could prove the point "it's cool and easy to provide third-party stores." Then they accidentally proved the point "you can't moderate content on a third-party store and it's content may run contrary to the first-party's policies which may confuse users."

Notice how Epic was like "uhh we probably won't do this on mobile though" when they realized what had happened. They don't actually give a shit about itch beyond using them as a pawn. Hopefully creators on the platform are getting some increased sales out of it though.

But ultimately, apple should not block additional stores. If they're as worried about content moderation as they say they could only allow sideloading and instead of serving them via the app store.

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