from the App Store Thursday after its developer implemented a payment option designed to avoid paying the tech giant a commission.earlier Thursday it was offering a “Mega Drop” Fortnite discount of up to 20% on in-game purchases. As part of that, it rolled out a new in-app payment option that bypassed the payment procedures in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Apple and Google each take a 30% commission on purchases made in their app stores.
“Apple imposes unreasonable and unlawful restraints to completely monopolize both markets and prevent software developers from reaching the over one billion users of its mobile devices unless they go through a single store controlled by Apple, the App Store, where Apple exacts an oppressive 30% tax on the sale of every app,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are applied equally to every developer and designed to keep the store safe for our users,” said an Apples spokesperson in a statement. “As a result their Fortnite app has been removed from the store.
Epic Games also appeared to taunt the tech giant on Twitter by sharing an image for an event it dubbed “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite,” an apparent reference to Apple’s famous “1984” ad.
Fartnite has made millions of dollars from stolen ideas.
Suck it up epic, 70% of payments or 100% of nothing.
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