Memes @lemmy.ml HSR🏴‍☠️ @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

You're treading a fine line Mr. Tim Apple

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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.
“allows“

They've been forced to and it shows because they didn't even bother with the iPad
Typical Apple behaviour, shitting in everybody else's bullshit pie while keeping their own bullshit pie completely pristine.
- By allowing emulators on the app store... Apple Bad?
  
  Google Play has emulators too
  
  Your question whether rhetorical or not is presented as a bad faith question. And to answer your question....yes. Apple and for walled garden environment.
- Huh, I knew that Nintendo had braindead fanboys but I'm genuinely surprised anyone thinks that corporations teaming up to kill emulation is a good thing.
  
  The Apple fanboys have been on this one for a while now. The bill the lack of emulators as a feature since businesspeople don't need distractions
*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.
- I like that you portrayed Nintendo with an ambiguous gender
  
  I think "Nintendo" should be treated like a plural noun because they consist of many lawyers.
fight asshole companies, fight
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.
  
  Permanently Deleted
  
  arrrghhhh
Just Nintendo doing Nintendo-things.
Where can I find these emulators? I need names!
- Looks like Delta will be one of the first, but I don't think it's available just yet.
Say the line, Bart!
- "....It is always morally correct...."
  
  "to pirate nintendo games!!"
- Ay Caramba!?
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?
- there are no laws against emulators. Collusion, on the other hand, there are loads of laws against that.
Nintendo? I don't know her.
- Oh, hi, Sega.

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