“We’ve probably lost $1bn dollars… but what’s the price of freedom?”
“But what’s the price of freedom?”
Other, non-Epic Games titles will then become available later this year.
This is in comparison to the handful of taps necessary to download a game from the in-built App Store.
(Memorably, Sweeney dubbed these fees as “hot garbage”.)
They make their store terms worse for the privilege of trying to compete with them.
Obviously it makes no competitive sense, its anti-competitive.”
In the meantime, Apple has behaved “dishonestly and maliciously”, Sweeney continued.
That power needs to be taken away from them."
Other apps from Altstore include a mobile Torrent app.
They didn’t realise that it was, in effect, banning any other competition.
Similarly by Google blocking Fortnite they established they did have a monopoly.
Epic Games isn’t the only company launching a new mobile storefront.
“The standard for us is - great terms for all developers,” Allison said, when asked.
“We don’t know their terms yet.”
“If [the terms] are great, we’ll come,” concluded Sweeney.
“If they’re not great, we won’t come.”