Ian Betteridge on Apple terminating Epics dev account

Ian summarised the overall situation pretty well. But the money quote clearly is Johns thoughts on Spotify.

Spotify, for example, is just as vociferous a corporate critic of the App Store as Epic is, and Apple hasn’t threatened them with revocation of Spotify’s developer program membership. The difference between Spotify and Epic isn’t in their rhetoric; it’s in their past behavior.

Ignoring your stance on the DMA and open markets. Epic has shown that they do not care about rules or agreements. They are not more or less vocal than Spotify or DHH. It is easy to scream "DMA! Account termination! Anti-competitive!" But this is only half of the picture.

The last paragraph also hits the nail on the head.

With the App Store, customers aren’t allowed to choose. Apple doesn’t compete by being the best. Apple succeeds by being the only option – and that is corrosive to any company culture. My fear that it’s corroded Apple’s culture, too.

Considering all the "fun" things we have seen Apple do lately it is hard to believe the company culture did not take a hit. I have friends working at Apple. They joined during a time where they thought "OMG THIS IS IT! This is the place to work at." - and I am hearing far less excitement in their tone when talking about the company and the culture than ten years ago.