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Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
In August 2020 Apple pulled off the popular Fortnite game by Epic Games from the App Store in retaliation for Epic's refusal to remove an in-app purchase capability alternative to Apple's own payment system which exacts a 30% toll from all payments.
Epic Games v. Google is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California. [1] Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic had challenged Google's monopolistic practices on its Google Play Store on Android devices. A jury trial was held in November and December 2023, after which the jury ...
(Reuters) - Epic Games, which makes the popular video game "Fortnite," on Wednesday urged a federal judge to require Apple to comply with an injunction governing how its lucrative App Store operates.
Epic Games said Friday that Apple’s decision to reject its proposed iOS app store for the European Union (EU) was “arbitrary” and “obstructive,” accusing the iPhone maker of violating ...
Epic games, the maker of the ... The move also prompted both app stores to remove the Fortnite app from their platforms. It meant Apple users could no longer play Fortnite on iOS devices. Epic’s ...
It turns out that Epic Games' announcement that it was doing an end-around with "Fortnite" to bypass Apple's App Store 30% "tax" was a gambit to precipitate legal action. Earlier Thursday, Epic ...
Epic, which had long protested this cut, deliberately made changes in the iOS version of Fortnite in August 2020 so that in-app purchases could bypass Apple’s payment system in favor of Epic’s ...