Apple Kicks Fortnite Store Challenging Payment

Apple boots fortnite off app store after challenge to payment rules.

Apple kicks fortnite store challenging payment. Emily nicolle via getty images apple has removed fortnite off its app store after the games creator epic games instituted. Epic games announced earlier thursday it was offering a mega drop fortnite discount of up to 20 on in game purchases. Hours after fortnite introduced a direct payment system that would circumvent the 3rd party cuts of storefronts apple is the first one to kick fortnite off app store. Apple kicks fortnite out of app store for challenging payment rules.

Earlier thursday epic issued a direct challenge to apple and googles payment. Apple kicks fortnite out of app store for challenging payment rules. As part of that it rolled out a new in app payment option that bypassed the procedures in the apple app. In the last thirty days fortnite has been installed 24 million times on apples app store around the world and to date it has accounted for 12 billion in spending on the app store.

Fortnite the popular video game made by epic games has been removed from the apple app store for iphones and ipads. Comment on this article via your disqus account. Apple removed the game fortnite from the app store on thursday after its developer implemented a payment option designed to avoid paying the tech giant a commission. If a rival music service sold subscriptions via apples store for the same price it would have to fork over as much as 3 of that to apple.

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