Your iPhone copy of Fortnite is about to become out of date [Updated]
Since Apple pulled Fortnite down from the iOS App Store earlier this month, some eBay users have apparently paid thousands of dollars for iPhones that had a playable, pre-installed copy of the game. Starting tomorrow, though, those devices will be no longer be able to play the latest version of the game.
[Update, 8/26 at 3:10p ET: iOS players who have previously downloaded the game will actually be able to continue playing the current Version 13.40 "Chapter 2 -Season 3" update on iOS, as well as subsequent versions on other platforms. Progression in the Season 3 Battle Pass will no longer be possible on any platform, however, and iOS players won't be able to crossplay with players on later versions on other platforms. Ars regrets the error.]
[...] Android users will still be able to install and play the latest update by downloading it directly from Epic or from The Samsung Galaxy Store on compatible devices.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 27 2020, @01:09AM
Have you ever written an Android app? If you want access to any of the hardware (like the screen, the speaker, the GPS, the storage, etc.) each has its own little permissions scheme which happens to change APIs with most every new flavor. The Android treadmill isn't cranked up quite as fast as the Microsoft DOS/Windows hamster wheel was in the 1990s, but it's spinning at a pretty good clip. If you want to play in their OS, you need to jump all the hoops properly, and the hoops continue to move, change, and multiply.
Sure, once you've got a working App you don't (usually) need to completely root the phone to install it, but you do have to code it to Android. It's not like I can sudo apt install anything I want on my phone - and it's my phone, so I really feel like I should be able to, or at least recompile from source and get 90+% of the basic Linux stuff that works on Raspbian to work on a phablet.
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