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Wow, they do this just 2 days after being fined $2 billion by EU!
Unless you don't know this "Tim Apple", those fines have a tendency to increase with repeated violations.
There's no wording in that law that says apple has to allow third party apps for alternate app stores or anything to be made available within apples app store. More like apple just has to allow sideloading. Why would Apple want to pay for the server expense of another company by-passing giving apple a share of the profits?
I hate both companies, but if I owned Apple, I'd be after doing the same thing. Epic can get people to sodeload that crap.
You need an Apple developer account to even make software for iOS. Alternate app stores are distributed on the web, not Apple’s App Store. Since an alternative app store is an iOS app, Apple banning Epic’s developer account means they’re banned from making one.