Epic Games increases its efforts to put pressure on Apple to allow its Fortnite game to embark on its App Store, with A new judicial file Ask judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to demand that Apple “accepts any conforming version of Fortnite on the American display of the App Store”.
Epic and Apple have engaged in a legal battle of several years on Apple App Store policies, in particular the commissions that Apple Charge for integrated purchases.
The publisher of Fortnite won a major victory last month when judge Rogers judged that Apple was in “voluntary violation” of an injunction on anti -competitive prices – a decision that seemed to open the way to Fortnite to return to the App Store, and more broadly, so that the developers offer alternative payment options in their applications.
However, Apple said he would call on the decision, and Friday, Epic said on Friday that the company was blocking Fortnite both from its American app store and prevented it from being released in the Epic Games store in Europe: “Now, unfortunately, Fortnite on iOS will be offline in the world until Apple unlocks.”
Apple challenged this characterization, in particular the suggestion that it blocked Fortnite outside the United States. Instead, the company said it asked Epic Sweden to “submit to updating the application without including the American App store so as not to have a strong impact in other geographies”.
But why block Fortnite in the United States? Epic released a letter Signed by Mark A. Perry, a lawyer representing Apple, telling Epic’s lawyers that “Apple determined not to take measures on the submission of the Fortnite application only after the ninth circuit on our request pending partial stay of the new injunction”.
In his file, Epic argues that Apple denies it “the ability to take advantage of the pro -competitive rules that he has helped to inaugurate” and to “punish” Epic “by excluding it from the very market that he has so much to open – while sending a clear message to other developers so as not to contest Apple’s practices.”
