Epic Games ask the judge to force Apple to agree to Fortnite

EPIC games are escalating their efforts to click Apple to allow Fortnite in its application store, with A new file for the court Judge IPhone Gonzales Rogers asked to ask Apple “to accept any compatible copy of Fortnite on the American store interface for the application store.”

EPIC and Apple participated in a year legal battle on the Apple App Store policies, especially Apple commissions for purchases within the application.

Forenet publisher He scored a big victory last month When Judge Rogers spent that the Apple was in a “deliberate violation” of a judicial order on anti-competition pricing-a ruling that seemed to pave the way for Fennett to return to the application store, and on a wider scale, for developers to provide alternative payment options in their applications.

However, Apple said it would appeal the ruling, on Friday, On Friday, Malaga said that the company prohibits Fortnite From both the United States App Store and prevent it from being released at the Epic Games Store in Europe: “Now, unfortunately, Fortnite on iOS will not connect all over the world until Apple cancels its ban.”

Apple opposed this description, specifically the proposal that it was preventing Fortnite outside the United States. Instead, the company said it requested Epic Sweden “re -submitting the application update without including the American store interface for the application store so that it does not affect the Fortnite in other geographical areas.”

But why do you prevent Fortnite in the United States? An epic has been released message It was signed by Mark A. Perry, a lawyer representing Apple, EPIC attorneys tell that “Apple has decided not to take action on submitting the Fortnite application until after the ninth department’s rules at our suspended request for partial residence in a new judicial order.”

In depositing it, EPIC argues that Apple deprives her of “the ability to take advantage of the pro-competition rules that helped her intervention”, and “punishing an epic” by closing it from the market that she fought strongly-with a clear message to other developers to not challenge Apple’s practices.