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> On June 30, 2020, Epic emailed Apple requesting to offer a competing Epic Games Store app through the App Store that would allow iOS device users to install a
by syspec 6y ago
> On June 30, 2020, Epic emailed Apple requesting to offer a competing Epic Games Store app through the App Store that would allow iOS device users to install apps from Epic directly, rather than through the App Store and to offer payment processing options within Epic’s apps other than IAP.
> On July 10, Apple responded that “Apple has never allowed this . . . we strongly believe these rules are vital to the health of the Apple platform and carry enormous benefits for both consumers and developers.”
> Around 2am on August 13, Mr. Sweeney of Epic wrote to Apple stating its intent to breach Epic’s agreements: “Epic will no longer adhere to Apple’s payment processing restrictions.” Hours later, Epic activated a secretly planted payment mechanism in Fortnite to slide a non-approved change into the app that blatantly evaded App Review.
From the legal document: https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/21/appleepic.pdf https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/21/appleepic.pdf
The back and fourth on case this is pretty insane
- dragonsky 6y agoThank you, that is one of the clearest descriptions of the events leading up to this that I've seen. On the surface it seems to be blatant provocation on the part of Epic the outcome of which should have been no surprise to anyone. If I were a customer of Epic I think I'd be pretty pissed that their actions caused me to lose access to my purchased content.
- morceauxdebois 6y agoMaybe you shouldn't have bought stuff you didn't actually own?
- m-p-3 6y agoWith how locked the iOS ecosystem is, you don't really own the hardware either..