Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

The reason Epic’s Fortnite got thrown out of the Apple App Store was that Epic rogue-updated Fortnite to offer a payment mechanism that bypassed Apple’s 30 percent cut of all in-app transactions. Apple booted Fortnite for violating its rules. Epic threw an… epic… hissy fit about this, culminating in the trial starting this week. While Epic has cobbled together an alliance called the Coalition for App Fairness — along with Spotify, Match Group, Basecamp, and Tile — there’s one more tech behemoth in play. Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. So does Fortnite itself.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22412899/epic-apple-trial-rules-investment-app-payment?source=Snapzu

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