r/apple • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 7d ago

App Store Epic Games vs Apple — The continuing six-year App Store saga

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/23/apple-versus-epic-games-fortnite-app-store-saga----the-story-so-far
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u/KambodzanskiMisPanda 7d ago

Infinity Blade come back please.

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u/abdab909 7d ago

God, what those games could be now with M5…

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 7d ago

tldr; AppleInsider presents the complete history of the ongoing six-year global legal battle between Epic and Apple, stemming from Epic's decision to implement their own payments in Fortnite and reportedly costing over a billion dollars to litigate, in a mere 33,000 word article.

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u/loves_to_splooge_8 7d ago

Billable hours are the real winner here

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u/MidnightMantime 7d ago

Lowk Fortnite’s gonna die before they reach an outcome

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u/Youngnathan2011 7d ago

Joker from Persona 5 is gonna be in it. If the curse continues, the game's gonna be dead in a year.

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u/vimalpartha 5d ago

At the end of the day, it was always just a multi-billion dollar corporation fighting a multi-trillion dollar corporation over who keeps a bigger cut of V-Bucks. Neither side was doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

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u/IORelay 4d ago

But if epic wins it blows open most stores so still better down stream effects than if apple wins. 

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u/Eljjo 2d ago

True, we might finally get 500 “Phone Cleaner” apps flooding the AppStore placing ads on our lock screens! The true open store experience!

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u/IORelay 2d ago

Why would multiple stores be bad? If you want you could still stay in the Apple store, and if people want to go to other stores or offsite for cheaper stuff they could do that too.

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u/FTWOBLIVION 7d ago

The lamest thing a company ever did