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Apple's statement:

“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.”

If you think the EU got their shit together in 2 days, you're day dreaming.

Phil Schiller invited Epic to make assurances that they'd follow the terms of the agreement. Epic did. The EU didn't even have their shoes on.

You can safely ignore Tim Sweeney's twitter chest beating - it's marketing.

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Breton posted on X that his team would look into this case with high priority yesterday. Apple noticed they are about to get a beating and decided to handle this case proactively before they get fined and regulated even stronger

Yep I'm aware of the tweet.

He now confirmed contact

"I take note with satisfaction that following our contacts Apple decided to backtrack its decision on Epic exclusion."

From Day 2, #DMA is already showing very concrete results!

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464

The EU reacted immediately and asked Apple for clarification. That means, they reminded Apple that the law is the law, which they seemed to have forgotten. You're the one dreaming if you think Apple got their shot together by themselves.

Epic already made assurances that they'd follow the terms of the agreement before their account was terminated. It did it very professionally and concisely. Apple basically responded with "we wanted a 10-page essay equivalent to grovelling and begging in dogeza position instead of a professional response" and terminated their account.

There is zero evidence of Epic doing anything on their part after that. There is, however, evidence of the EU Commission warning (if you can't parse "Under the DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers to silence developers" as a warning, you may need to improve your functional reading skills) Apple and inquiring for explanation.

Tim Sweeney isn't chest beating. He is attributing this development to the EU. Chest beating would mean attributing this development to their own actions, which he is not claiming at all.

I agree. I feel like this was really a muscle flex from Apple in terms of preventing shenanigans. The most critical part of this for Apple is the message to others who are thinking about opening a app marketplace:

- You're still going to be paying us our 27%

- You screw around and we will clip your wings.

Incidentally, if you don't like the rules Apple has set up, start pushing for a law that you do want. If you happen to be in the US, actually write your representatives rather than just whine about it online to a bunch of other people.

All sides are marketing and trying to maintain an image. It's up to you to figure out what's actually happening without bias.

Epic led with an ad campaign while Apple stayed silent.

Then did it again by publishing their correspondence with Apple.

Tell me more.

Yes, Epic "led". So what? Of course the one in the favorable position would like to minimize talk about anything that would disrupt the position.

You 1 minute ago:

> All sides are marketing

You 10 seconds ago:

Nah, only one side is marketing.

Marketing isn’t limited to ads. Obviously.

Correct!

Such as Tweets: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic