<story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could. Rolling back the decision is not going to get them out of the eyes of the regulators and they must have assumed that going into it. Why give the EU even more ammo against you.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that they saw that all happening but Epic provided them a letter saying they double pinky promised, cross their hearts, will obey by the rules this time, which Apple will later try to use in court later on. Otherwise it doesn’t seem worth the risk prompting clearly foreseeable regulator action.</text></item><item><author>agust</author><text>Yes, the EU immediately stepped in and explained them what the consequences of breaking the law would be, and Apple budged, caved, backed down. Not getting out of this one.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>This needs to be higher up. Apple didn&amp;#x27;t budge, or cave, and regulators did not get involved.&lt;p&gt;Epic could have avoided all this by just responding to Apple and signing the EU Addendum affirming they would stick to the laws. Instead they wanted to get into the news cycle.&lt;p&gt;This is the policy they have to agree to: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;request&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;alternate_eu_terms_addendum.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;request&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;alterna...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&amp;#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agust</author><text>Or maybe Apple is not infallible, they took a shot because they are very arrogant and thought they could get away with it, and it failed miserably because now there is a law which makes their abusive behaviors illegal?</text></comment>
<story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could. Rolling back the decision is not going to get them out of the eyes of the regulators and they must have assumed that going into it. Why give the EU even more ammo against you.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that they saw that all happening but Epic provided them a letter saying they double pinky promised, cross their hearts, will obey by the rules this time, which Apple will later try to use in court later on. Otherwise it doesn’t seem worth the risk prompting clearly foreseeable regulator action.</text></item><item><author>agust</author><text>Yes, the EU immediately stepped in and explained them what the consequences of breaking the law would be, and Apple budged, caved, backed down. Not getting out of this one.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>This needs to be higher up. Apple didn&amp;#x27;t budge, or cave, and regulators did not get involved.&lt;p&gt;Epic could have avoided all this by just responding to Apple and signing the EU Addendum affirming they would stick to the laws. Instead they wanted to get into the news cycle.&lt;p&gt;This is the policy they have to agree to: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;request&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;alternate_eu_terms_addendum.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;request&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;alterna...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&amp;#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jensson</author><text>&amp;gt; That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could.&lt;p&gt;Apple banned Epic the day before DMA came into effect when doing this sort of thing was still legal, they 100% saw this. They did probably bet on the chance EU would overlook it if they did it before the law came into effect, they lost that bet but they thought it was worth a try.</text></comment>