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How does letting me have a PC experience hurt your console experience? What gives you the right to force Epic into a console experience for everyone?


Because it can’t be both ways. If tomorrow Facebook decides to only offer its app only through Epic App Store, consumers now have reckon with a privacy compromised app. And Apple now has to spend tons more resources playing a failing game of whack a mole closing all sorts of security and privacy holes that could have been avoided if the misbehaving apps weren’t allowed in the first place. Lots of people buy an iPhone for the walled garden, peace of mind experience.


Most of the recent jailbreaks involve Safari vulnerabilities, so you don't even need to install an app to compromise your iPhone, the walled garden is just security through obscurity.


Let’s compare malware on Windows, OSX, Android vs iOS, shall we?


That's like saying "let's compare species of ants on Africa, Asia, America vs Antarctica", you would need to melt the ice first; iOS is uncharted territory.


No it isn’t. iOS have had malware problems as well as a result of people jailbreaking their device to install software from third-parties. Apple fortunately makes it increasingly difficult to jailbreak it.

We can also see that Apple were unable to protect their OSX devices as a result of allowing third-party app installations.


You can have a PC experience by buying literally any non-Apple phone. There are hundreds to choose from. The large majority of phones sold around the world are, in fact, not made by Apple.

What gives people who prefer the PC experience the right to ban consoles from existing?


What gives Epic the right to force me to use their store?




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