video games Fortnite It is again available in the United States in the Apple application boutique, the App Store, an AFP journalist located on Tuesday, May 20, a few minutes after the announcement of the editor of this successful title, Epic Games.
Launched in 2017 and instant success, Fortnite He had been withdrawn from the store in 2020 by Apple, who reproached the epic games to break their rules by offering the possibility of payments within its application, without going through Apple’s signature system.
The epic games also indicated in X (Ex-Twitter), that the game in the so-called “Battle Royale” format (only a player can prevail after the elimination of all others) also returned to Europe in the operating system of Apple devices, iOS.
Downloadable not from the App Store, but from the Application Applications store, it had become inaccessible in Europe on May 16. Apple had explained, at that time, to the AFP so as not to be the cause of the withdrawal of the game in alternative application stores to its own epic games and invited to offer once again the validation of its title outside the United States. Requested Tuesday by AFP, Apple did not follow up immediately.
A judicial saga
The return of Fortnite In the App Store there is a new important development in a saga rich in turns and shifts, a replica of a judicial earthquake dates from April 30. A federal judge of Oakland (California) had accused Apple so as not to fulfill his decision more than three years ago and that theoretically forced him to open the iPhone to stores for competitive applications to their.
In September 2021, Judge Yvonne González Rogers had estimated that the Cupertino (California) company could no longer impose on applications editors to pass through the application store, Apple Online Store, as well as for its payment system.
This trial resulted from a procedure initiated in 2020 by Epic Games, who accused the Cupertino Group (California) of the abuse of the dominant position and assuming commissions too high. In his decision, very critical of Apple and its leaders, Mrs. González Rogers ordered in particular the creator of the iPod who no longer takes any commission on transactions made outside her application store.
Apple indicated its intention to appeal this decision. He had already challenged the initial sentence before the Supreme Court, but the highest American court had refused to resume the file.
Source: BFM TV
