Fortnite is blocked from Apple’s US App Store… again
“We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week,” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on X on May 1st, just as … The post Fortnite is blocked from Apple’s US App Store… again appeared first on BGR.
"We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week," Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on X on May 1st, just as Apple was handed a humiliating court defeat in a case Epic started years ago. It wasn't the victory Sweeney had hoped for, though. Epic also lost the same case, with the judge siding with Apple for removing Fortnite from the App Store.
The next paragraph in the same tweet served as a hedge, which Sweeney needed, knowing that Apple’s new defeat didn’t automatically mean Fortnite would return to the iPhone worldwide.
"Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic," said the CEO.
Epic resubmitted Fortnite to the US App Store a week later using a European account. Several days passed without news. Then, on Friday, May 16th, Apple rejected the Fortnite resubmission. What's more puzzling is that the game is also blocked on App Store alternatives in Europe.
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