I predict that the market segment of casual players using Apple hardware but Windows Bootcamp will now be driven away from Apple.
So in the future, you'll need to choose when buying your hardware if you want phone-quality games on Mac or triple A on PC. I'm curious to see how this will mix with Apple silicon, which will effectively make running a stock Windows impossible. That might be illegal.Īnd in addition, Epic is basically using Apple to send a very strong signal to game developers: Everyone serious about gaming is on Windows anyway. So from a legal standpoint, Apple has reacted to a perceived infringement in one contract by retaliating in a legally unrelated contract. But legally, the iOS and the Mac developer agreements are separate contracts.
This is almost certainly due to their developer account being blocked, so it's not like Epic is fully innocent here.īut what they are doing is brilliant, because they have just demonstrated that their perceived infringement of the iOS rules has caused them to also lose Mac developer access, presumably due to it being the same account.
