It's Fortnite vs. Apple - who will win? 🤔
As has already been pointed out by Epic, many non-gaming apps, including Uber and Amazon, already allow direct payments and it’s purely because Fortnite is a video game that Apple seem to be enforcing the rule.
Apple appears intent on upsetting major players in the games industry at the moment, having this month alsoTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatEpic Games’ legal challenge seems to be so well planned it even references a Nineteen Eighty-Four parody that is currently running as a short film in the Party Royale mode.
‘Epic is seeking injunctive relief to allow fair competition in these two key markets that directly affect hundreds of millions of consumers and tens of thousands, if not more, of third-party app developers’, says the lawsuit in reference to Apple and Google. If Epic win, and they must have good reason to think they can, it will open the floodgates for other companies and could fundamentally change Apple’s business model for smartphones forever.
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