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They violated the rules of the iOS App Store, this is the Mac one. In fact, it effectively blocks them from releasing it as a direct download as well.

This is likely going to be a significant mistake from Apple in hindsight.



It's one agreement and Epic violated it.


I'm pretty sure they are separate agreements and separate charges, and therefore separate transactions and contracts.


This has not been true since 2015, when the various developer programs (Mac, iOS, and Safari) were combined into a single Apple Developer program (for $99/year).

Source: I've been a member of the Apple Developer program since at least 2006, which was the first year I attended WWDC. The current program is described at <https://developer.apple.com/programs/>.




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