Getting rid of rules and fees on smartphones would certainly help Epic achieve that. It also sees itself as more than a game or engine developer, and wants to build a "metaverse" where players and creators can buy and sell content and play games across platforms. More money! For starters, Epic wants to sell V-bucks in Fortnite without having to pay Apple's 30% fee.Įpic didn't go through all this trouble just for Fortnite dollars, though. In other words, Epic thinks that iPhones should be more like Windows 10 PCs, where you don't have to use the Microsoft Store to buy or sell software if you don't want to.
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And according to Epic, Apple's rules for third-party iOS apps aren't just unfair: they're anti-competitive and illegal.Įpic wants Apple to let users install apps that aren't distributed on the App Store, and for it to let developers use their own in-app payment processing, bypassing Apple's fee. iOS apps also have to use Apple's payment processing for in-app purchases of digital items (Fortnite V-bucks, for example), and Apple takes a cut of that, too.Įpic says that iOS is an unavoidable operating system for mobile devs-most people either have an iPhone or an Android phone-and so it's not fair that Apple forces everyone to play by its "oppressive" rules. Software developers who want to release iPhone apps must do so through the iOS App Store, where Apple takes a cut of each sale. In the trial, Epic will reference "antitrust laws," which are laws against anti-competitive behavior. The term "antitrust" is similar, but refers to efforts to counter monopolies. Epic says that what Apple is doing is "anti-competitive" and that it has "monopoly power," which both mean that Epic thinks Apple has too much control over a market.
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