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Forums - Gaming - Epic vs Apple- Judge rules partly in favor of both Epic and Apple, but mostly Apple

LurkerJ said:

Is Epic begging for Fortnite return to iOS yet?

They tried to get it back for South Korea, Apple said no.

News sites are starting to wake up to the fact that this wasn't a win for Epic.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667208/epic-games-appeal-apple-judge-rogers-ruling-court

It’s not hard to imagine why: Epic lost on every other count. Apple will not be forced to allow users to sideload apps, or accept other app stores, or lower its fee below 30 percent.

The lone decision against Apple was a significant one, but it only forces Apple to allow app developers to point to their own choice of payment methods instead of Apple’s IAP — and Epic might not even benefit from that decision unless Apple agrees to bring Fortnite back to the App Store to begin with. That’s yet another thing the court didn’t mandate.

In fact, we’re currently waiting to see if Apple will cut off Epic’s developer account for Unreal Engine, too. When the ruling takes effect on December 9th, it will also end a preliminary injunction that kept Apple from doing that.



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Really great news, I was rooting for this since Spotify case years ago. Apple definition of "hosting" payment method never made any sense from a technical point of view, you can safely include another ways of payment in apps without using anything from Apple really. 



Epic has to pay like 4 million, right? That’s like a quarter gumball to them. Apple will lose a fuck ton of revenue.