Pavel Jelic The 37th week of this year is slowly but surely coming to an end again. Even today, we have again prepared an IT summary for you, in which we focus on various news from the world of information technology. Today, we'll take a look at Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney's reaction to Apple's behavior in recent days. In the next news, we will inform you about the availability of the Google Maps application for the Apple Watch, and in the last news, we will tell you more about the new email client created by a former Apple employee. We can get straight to the point.
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Vratislav Holub Epic Games CEO commented on Apple's behavior
It's slowly starting to look like it is the case of Apple vs. Epic Games is coming to an end. The studio Epic Games recently backed down and said that they want to bring Fortnite back to the App Store, mainly due to the loss of up to 60% of players on apple platforms, which is more than enough. Of course, it was not without certain issues, when the Epic Games studio "digging" into Apple at the last minute. It stated that it considered suing the apple company to be the right thing to do, and that this event would still happen one day, even from another company. Apple has been saying all along that it is able to accept Fortnite back into the App Store – it just had to remove the banned payment method. However, Epic Games missed this deadline and on Tuesday the tables were turned, as Apple instead sued Epic Games. In the lawsuit, he states that he is able to return Fortnite to the App Store only on the condition that the Epic Games studio reimburses the apple company for all lost profits that arose during the time that Fortnite was available with its own payment method. This offer still seems pretty fair after all that, but Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has a slightly different take on it.
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Sweeney briefly stated on his Twitter that Apple is not about anything but money. Furthermore, he thinks that the apple company has completely lost track of the basic principles of the functioning of the technology industry, although he himself does not state these principles in any way. In another tweet, the CEO of Epic Games again referred to the Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite ad that was created, which portrayed Apple as a powerful dictator who firmly sets the terms. Part of the other posts then explains why this dispute arose in the first place. According to Sweeney, all developers and creators have their rights, for which he tried to fight against Apple. He completely denies that this whole lawsuit is based primarily on money, which is already considered. You can view the entire tweet thread by clicking on the tweet below. We will learn more about when and if Fortnite will reappear in the App Store on September 28, when the next court case will take place. So, for now, Epic Games still has a deleted developer account in the App Store, along with its own games, which you simply cannot download from the apple app gallery. Are you on the side of Apple or on the side of Epic Games?
And finally, creators have rights. The right to build apps, share them with users directly, and do business directly, without being herded through a single centrally planned, anti-competitive store.
- Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 9, 2020
Google Maps has arrived on Apple Watch
It's been a few long months since Google decided to remove the Apple Watch version of Google Maps. The removal of the application from the Apple Watch was allegedly due to the fact that users did not use it, so there was no reason for its further development. However, it turned out that Google Maps on watchOS has a lot of users, so Google announced in August that Google Maps for Apple Watch would be coming back soon, within the next few weeks. According to available reports from some of Reddit users it looks like the watchOS version is now available after the latest update to Google Maps for iOS. Google Maps for Apple Watch can display real-time navigation directions, and you can use your Apple Watch to quickly launch navigation and other actions, for example. If you would like to try your luck and see if the Google Maps application is already available for your watch, then there is nothing left to do but to update the application in the App Store for iPhone.
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A former Apple employee is developing an interesting email client
Neil Jhaveri, a former Apple engineer who worked on the development of the native Mail application, presented his new project - a new Gmail client for macOS. This email client is currently available in beta and is called Mimestream. It is an application that is entirely written in the modern apple programming language Swift, in the case of pot design, Jhaveri bet on AppKit together with SwiftUI. Thanks to this, Mimestream has a simple and intuitive user interface that every user will simply fall in love with. Mimestream uses the Gmail API and offers a lot more than the web interface. Several great functions can be mentioned, such as categorized mailboxes, automatically synchronized aliases and signatures, or search using operators. In addition, there is support for working with multiple e-mail accounts, support for system notifications, dark mode, the possibility of using gestures, protection against tracking and much more. If you would like to try Mimestream, you must register for the beta version. Currently, the application is available for free, but in its full version it will be paid. A version for iOS and iPadOS is also planned in the future, currently Mimestream is only available on macOS 10.15 Catalina and later.
I wouldn't even be surprised if this started the big end of one, once very famous SW company EG
That probably won't happen. They just end up agreeing on something. That is, Sweeney will just back off and beat his liver on Twitter, because that's probably the only thing left for him to do. I can't imagine any court in a civilized country (wait, maybe that doesn't apply to the US) ordering a private entity to do bad business and to change it.