Epic Games files court motion to force Apple to approve ‘Fortnite’ in U.S. App Store
Epic Games has filed a court motion asking U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to force Apple to approve its submission of the “Fortnite” video game in the U.S. App Store.
The Epic filing claims Apple is in contempt of Judge Gonzalez Rogers’ April order that prevented Apple from rejecting an app over its use of outside payment links. Epic argues that Apple’s refusal to review its Fortnite submission until after a pending Ninth Circuit ruling amounts to retaliation for its legal challenges.
In a letter from Apple and shared by Epic, Apple stated it “won’t take action on the Fortnite app submission until after the Ninth Circuit rules on our pending request for a partial stay of the new injunction.” Epic claims the delay is in violation of Apple’s previous assurances that it would approve Fortnite if the app complied with Apple’s guidelines.
The Fortnite publisher is seeking enforcement of the court’s original injunction, as well as a contempt ruling against Apple. The company also wants to see the Judge require that Apple “accept any compliant Epic app, including Fortnite, for distribution on the U.S. storefront of the App Store.”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple said on Friday that it asked the game company’s European division, Epic Sweden, to “resubmit the app update without including the US storefront of the App Store so as not to impact Fortnite in other geographies. We did not take any action to remove the live version of Fortnite from alternative distribution marketplaces.”
The bottom line is clear: Epic Games wants to enjoy all of the benefits of Apple’s App Store, including access to well over one billion of the world’s most affluent users for free. That is illogical, unfair, and, basically, theft. – MacDailyNews, May 4, 2021
How much did it cost developers to have their apps burned onto CDs, boxed, shipped, displayed on store shelves prior to Apple remaking the world for the better for umpteenth time? Apple incurs costs to store, review, organize, surface, and distribute apps to over one billion users. — MacDailyNews, June 10, 2022
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