Fornite is no longer available to download in the Apple App Store
'Fortnite' developer Epic Games responded to the removal by filing a lawsuit against Apple alleging"unfair and anti-competitive actions."from its app store after the game's owner introduced a new way to buy its virtual currency that circumvents the tech giant's payment system.players who buy V-bucks through its direct payment process, will get a 20 percent discount on their purchases.
"Currently, when using Apple and Google payment options, Apple and Google collect a 30 percent fee and the up to 20 percent price drop does not apply," the company wrote in a published on Aug. 12. "If Apple or Google lower their fees on payments in the future, Epic will pass along the savings to you." was no longer available to download via the Apple App Store. against Apple, calling the company a "behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation." In the suit, Epic said its goal was to "end Apple's unfair and anti-competitive actions" in its App Store and its in-app payment processing market.
Tim Sweeney-led Epic Games is one of the few big app developers that can challenge tech giants Apple and Google over their practice of taking a large portion of revenue from transactions that occur within their marketplaces. The company, which is valued at around $17 billion, brought in $4.2 billion in revenue in 2019.
Sweeney recently took to Twitter to complain about Apple's practice, which CEO Tim Cook recently had to defend during a congressional hearing, as "intentional anti-competitive strategy." In another tweet, he wrote, "Apple is one of the greatest companies that has ever existed, perhaps the greatest. But they're fundamentally wrong in blocking competition and choice on devices they make, and that holds up entire fields of technological progress.
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