Let them eat each other alive. That would be a 2 for 1 offer for saying fuck off to two giant asshole companies
Best I can do is them banding together to fuck normal people over and extract as much cash as they can
Nintendo goes after individual emulators, which are now even easier to track on an app store. Takes them out, potentially extracting user information for further Bowser sized rulings against the lot of them.
This idea is so scummy and contorted that I wouldn't be surprised if they actually implemented it.
“allows“
They've been forced to and it shows because they didn't even bother with the iPad
*Nintendo quietly shows Apple Yuzu's corpse in their trunk while staring sternly and slowly and audibly tapping a bloody baseball bat against the ground behind their back... *
Apple showing Nintendo their mountain of cash, then cuts them from the AppStore.
Yeah, I somehow doubt that Apple could be done in like Yuzu. They're in a different ballpark, league, and game.
Apple has make a lawsuit last long enough to not make it worth it money. The worst a lawsuit against Apple did is stopping sales of Apple Watches for a week.
App developers are responsible for the content the emulators can include (which are called mini-apps)
So let's say I am Square Enix. I own the rights to Chrono Trigger. I can release an emulator with Chrono Trigger SNES ROM and can sell it as Chrono Trigger. I cannot have said emulator allowed to run Super Mario World, as that would get my program delisted from App Store.
This is not limited to just emulators though. We can classify the games in roblox as mini apps; so let's say if Roblox doesn't remove a game that clearly infringes copyright; they too will get removed from App Store. (Which is one of the many reasons why they try to remove the games that contain these content)
The wording of the new App Store rules say developers are responsible for any software offered in an app, and there's been a bit of debate going on as to what that means in practice.
I haven't heard if any emulators have or haven't passed Apple's review process yet.
Emulation for game preservation is fine, these ones getting taken down by Nintendo aren’t doing that. They are promoting piracy, providing the keys to play games, and making a profit.
Theres ways to go about this legally, advocating piracy, profiting and providing the keys are what’s not legal.
fight asshole companies, fight
Where can I find these emulators? I need names!
Can apple even legally do this lol
Emulators aren't illegal. So why shouldn't they allow it?
If so then how did Nintendo manage to take down yuzu?
By going after the encryption and decryption part rather than the hardware and software emulation part. And having a massive amount of money to spend on lawyers.
Having much greater lawyer force than a couple of developers. Nintendo would win even if they are not right. Or even if not win, those developers would go completely bancrupt for the rest of their lifes because of lawyers costs.
They didn't. Nintendo and Yuzu came to an agreement and settled out of court.
