Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
It&#x27;s always interesting to read the comments on articles about the Epic Games situation. We can have discussions about Apple&#x27;s cut or how Apple operates their store but this is such a clear cut case that I&#x27;m honestly surprised so many HN readers are siding with Epic (or maybe it&#x27;s just the anti-Apple crowd looking for any reason to crap on Apple).<p>Epic tried to get Apple to allow a whole new store on their platform AND allow Epic to do all its own CC processing. Apple said no and Epic flipped a switch to offer CC processing for Fortnite and so Apple removed the app and disabled the account. Part of that account access included the Sign in with Apple and so that is going away as well.<p>Epic isn&#x27;t fighting for the little guy, they wanted their own store where they would take their own percentage of sales.<p>Lastly I&#x27;ll just say that while 30% might be too high I think a lot of people are overlooking the value that the App Store and the iOS platform as whole provides. I swear all of the comments about &quot;I could host it myself and use stripe and pay way less&quot; just reeks of &quot;...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem...&quot;