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Epic Files Suit Against Apple After Fortnite Removed From App Store

Published 08/13/2020, 04:22 PM
Updated 08/13/2020, 04:36 PM
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Yasin Ebrahim

Investing.com - Game developer Epic Games said it had filed a lawsuit against Apple after the tech giant removed the iOS version of its popular Fortnite game. 

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) were largely flat following the news.

Epic said it was not seeking monetary compensation from the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, for the injuries it has suffered, but would seek to establish Apple’s App Store as a monopoly, and pave a way to ensure it allows "fair competition."

The lawsuit comes after Apple claimed Epic had enabled in-app payments in its app, a move that was not reviewed or approved by Apple and violated the App Store guidelines. 

 

Latest comments

Amazon now runs a full online pharmacy. When is the gov’t going to take action?
Apple is greedy. 30% cut of software sale. Then it changed to 30% cut of software subscriptions.
AAPL has so much money they can just buy best lawyers and make it a long law suit and Peter out EPIC It’s not win battle for EPIC , monopoly and cartel wins all the time
Apple should love app developers who make their hardware more valuable. But a win-win is not enough. They want to have the cake and eat it too.
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