Fortnite Apple Store Monopoly

This march 19 2018 file photo shows apples app store app in baltimore.

Fortnite apple store monopoly. Epic games sues apple after a fortnite v bucks discount for all players meant as a shot against apples revenue transaction practices and monopoly led to the game being removed from the ios app. Apple is being sued by the company behind the blockbuster video game fortnite claiming the iphone maker abuses a monopoly over its app store to charge developers exorbitant fees. Apple removed fortnite from the app store and has informed epic that on friday august 28 apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut epic off from ios and mac development tools. In retaliation apple is blocking fortnite from a billion devices get.

The fortnite challenge to apple and. The google play store also amounts to a monopoly accounting for more than 90 of android app downloads epic says in the complaint against google. The latest version of fortnite contains a payment system that lets player transactions bypass apples app store and googles play preventing the firms from collecting their typical 30 percent. Ap photopatrick semansky cn epic games the maker of the popular video game fortnite filed antitrust suits against apple and google in federal court on thursday after the tech giants kicked the video game off their app stores due to an ongoing dispute over commissions.

Apples removal of fortnite is yet another example of apple flexing its enormous power in order to impose unreasonable restraints and unlawfully maintain its 100 percent monopoly over the ios.