Epic Games escalated its Apple pressure efforts to allow Fortnite game in its app store, with A new court deposit Asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require Apple “to accept any compliant version of Fortnite at the US App Store store”.
Epic and Apple have been involved in a legal battle for Apple’s Apple policies, especially Apple Committees charge for in -application purchases.
The Fortnite publisher scored a significant victory last month when Judge Rogers ruled that Apple was in a “voluntary violation” of an anti-talented pricing order-a decision that appeared to pave the way for Fortnite to return to the App Store and widely.
However, Apple said it would appeal to the decision, and on Friday, EPIC said Friday that the company is blocking Fortnite both from its American App Store and its deterrence from releasing the Epic Games Store in Europe: “Now, unfortunately, Fortnite on iOS will be off the world until Apple.”
Apple has questioned this characterization, specifically the proposal that it is blocking Fortnite outside the United States. Instead, the company said it asked Epic Sweden to “re -informed the application without including the US Warehouse of the App Store so as not to affect Fortnite in other geographical areas”.
But why block Fortnite in the United States? Epic was released a letter It was signed by Mark A. Perry, a proxy representing Apple, telling Epic lawyers that “Apple has decided not to take action to submit the Fortnite application only after the pending circuit for our pending request for partial stay of the new command”.
In its testimony, Epic argues that Apple denies that “the ability to benefit from the pre-reactionary rules that helped to start” and “punishment” epic “by closing the market itself, has struggled so hard to open-while sending a clear message to others.”
