The epic game is increasing its efforts to put pressure on Apple to allow its game to be played in its App Store, with it A new court filing Judge Yuvan Gonzalez Rogers demand that the Apple “accept any compliance version of Fortnite on the US Store Front of the App Store.”
Epic and Apple Apple’s App Store policies, especially Apple’s appointment charges, have been engaged in a one -long legal battle on Apple’s App Store policies on commission charges.
Fortnite Publisher Won a big victory last month When Judge Rogers ruled that Apple is in a “deliberate violation” of the order at anti-competitive prices-it is a decision that it seems that Fortonite is paving the way for the app store, and on a more widely, to offer the developers alternative payment options to their apps.
However, Apple said he would appeal the decision, and on Friday, Epic said that the company is blocking Fortnite on Friday Both of its US App Store and to prevent it from being released at the epic sports store in Europe: “Now, sadly, on the iOS Fortnite will be offline worldwide unless Apple blocks it.”
Apple described this feature as controversial, especially suggesting that it was preventing Fortatite outside the United States. Instead, the company said it told Epic Sweden that “the application of the app without adding the US store front of the App Store to recall up the app so that other geography does not affect Fortatite.”
But why block Fortynite in the United States? Epic was released A letter A lawyer representing Apple, signed by Mark A. Perry, told Epic’s lawyers that “Apple has vowed not to submit the Fortnite app to the Ninth Circuit Rules on our pending application for partial establishment of the new order.”
In its filing, the EPIC argued that Apple is denying that “the ability to take advantage of the competitive rules that it started,” and “punishing the epic”, “by taking it out of the market, it has struggled so strongly, though not sending a clear message to Apple.