Apple Banned Epic Games' Developer Account, So How Is Fortnite Coming Back to the U.S. App Store?

In the aboriginal days of the Apple vs. Epic Games ineligible battle, Apple banned the Epic Games developer account and each of Epic's titles, similar Fortnite, disappeared from the App Store. ‌Epic Games‌' U.S. developer relationship has been banned for astir 5 years now, truthful erstwhile Epic said past week that it would bring Fortnite backmost to the ‌App Store‌ successful the U.S., it wasn't wide however that would work.


‌Epic Games‌ CEO Tim Sweeney said implicit the weekend (via The Verge) that Epic volition usage its ‌Epic Games‌ Sweden relationship to taxable Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌ successful the U.S. Apparently, Sweeney has spoken to Apple astir the issue, and based connected his wording, it sounds similar Apple could let the plan, but helium did not accidental that helium has explicit support from Apple.
We person conversed with Apple connected the taxable and volition usage our Epic Games Sweden relationship to taxable Fortnite to the US App Store. We created this relationship past twelvemonth to motorboat Epic Games Store and Fortnite successful the European Union, and Apple required an EU-domiciled account.
After Apple was required to enactment alternate app marketplaces successful the European Union nether the Digital Markets Act, ‌Epic Games‌ created an relationship based successful Sweden successful bid to launch the Epic Games Store. Apple initially unopen down Epic Games' EU developer account owed to Epic's signifier of untrustworthy behavior, but that didn't last. Apple's connection from erstwhile it banned the EU account:
Epic's egregious breach of its contractual obligations to Apple led courts to find that Apple has the close to terminate "any oregon each of Epic Games' wholly owned subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or different entities nether Epic Games' power astatine immoderate clip and astatine Apple's sole discretion." In airy of Epic's past and ongoing behavior, Apple chose to workout that right.
‌Epic Games‌ claimed that Apple was violating the Digital Markets Act by not allowing it to make an alternate app marketplace successful Europe, and the European Union started questioning Apple. Apple ultimately reinstated the account aft ‌Epic Games‌ promised to travel the alternate marketplace rules, and Apple avoided contented with EU regulators.

The result of the Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ quality successful the U.S. resulted successful Apple not having to reinstate the U.S. ‌Epic Games‌ account, and it sounds similar Apple inactive has nary program to bash so. Apple could entity to ‌Epic Games‌ trying to instrumentality Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌ utilizing the Swedish account, but fixed that Apple is already facing the wrath of the judge overseeing the case, it whitethorn not privation to pull further attention.

‌Epic Games‌ CEO Tim Sweeney offered a "peace proposal" to Apple past week, claiming that if Apple extends its "Apple-tax-free" model worldwide, Epic would instrumentality Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌ and driblet existent and aboriginal litigation. So far, Apple has fixed nary motion that it volition instrumentality the ‌App Store‌ nexus and outgo changes extracurricular of the United States.

Apple is present required to let developers to adhd links and buttons to their apps directing customers to acquisition options extracurricular of the ‌App Store‌.

Sweeney said that ‌Epic Games‌ is working "as hard arsenic possible" to instrumentality Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌, but that helium doesn't yet cognize erstwhile it volition beryllium acceptable to launch.
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