Fortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next week

Mega-Popular Fortnite Epic Games returns to the American iOS App Store next week after Surprising verdict In a multi -year legal battle with Apple.

The dispute between Epic -Ai Apple began in 2020, when Apple Removed epic games from iOS stores. Since Apple takes 30% of all apps through apps, EPIC has introduced support for direct payments in Fortnite to bypass Apple’s fee. Next year, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that Apple cannot prevent developers like EPIC to add to customers’ ties to buy digital goods outside IOS ecosystems to avoid over 30%.

However, almost four years later, on Wednesday night, the same judge said in the verdict that Apple was in a “intentional violation” of a ban that allowed the developers to go to customers to payable payment methods that were not subject to Apple fees.

“The fact that this court thought would tolerate such disobedience was a big mistake. As always, the concealment has worsened. For this court, there is no other snack on Apple,” Rogers said.

Even in the time of judgment in 2021, Fortnite did not return to iOS App Store. At the time, the EPIC Director Tim Sweeney Executive said The application would come back if she could offer “Paying through an application in honest competition with Apple’s payment through the application, transferring savings to consumers.”

But after Rogers’s unexpected verdicts this week, Sweeney said Fortnite would finally be available for IOS USA users.

“Apple’s 15-30% Apple’s Garbons are now equally dead here in the United States of America as in Europe according to the Digital Markets Act. Here is illegal, illegal,” Sweeney wroteNoting that it took four years, four months and seventeen days to reach this point.