Epic Games Has Paid Over $100 Million in Legal Fees to Fight Apple's App Store Rules

It has outgo Epic Games much than $100 cardinal to situation Apple's App Store rules successful the ongoing Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ ineligible battle, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said contiguous successful an interrogation with Business Insider.


Sweeney said that ‌Epic Games‌ has paid "legal bills" successful excess of $100 million, but that the quality has outgo the institution a batch more.
But if you look astatine mislaid revenue, that's different story. We can't foretell precisely however overmuch we would person made connected iOS, but successful the 2 years that we were connected the platform, Fortnite had made astir $300 cardinal connected iOS. So you could person projected hundreds of millions of dollars of mislaid gross arsenic a effect of the fight.
Sweeney went connected to accidental that 1 could "easily imagine" that the full outgo to ‌Epic Games‌ was a cardinal dollars oregon much based connected mislaid gross from iOS users, and mislaid gross from radical who didn't play due to the fact that their friends connected iOS weren't capable to play.

While ‌Epic Games‌ mostly mislaid its tribunal lawsuit against Apple erstwhile a justice recovered that Apple did not person a monopoly, ‌Epic Games‌ scored a triumph due to the fact that Apple was forced to driblet its anti-steering ‌App Store‌ policies.

As portion of the Epic Games vs. Apple ineligible battle, Apple was fixed an bid to let developers to nonstop customers to acquisition options extracurricular of the ‌App Store‌. Apple was capable to enactment disconnected implementing the functionality for respective years, but successful 2024, did truthful successful a mode that inactive progressive fees.

Just past week, the justice overseeing the Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ ineligible combat said that Apple was successful contempt of court for failing to decently comply with the injunction. Apple was ordered to instantly instrumentality caller U.S. ‌App Store‌ rules allowing developers to adhd links to outer websites wherever customers tin marque purchases. Apple is not allowed to cod commissions for purchases made utilizing these links, nor tin it power the look of the links oregon buttons that developers use.

Apple is appealing the decision, but successful the meantime, it's a triumph for developers, and a triumph that was funded by ‌Epic Games‌. Sweeney said past week that ‌Epic Games‌ would beryllium bringing Fortnite back to the iOS App Store successful the U.S. arsenic a effect of the ruling, and successful the interrogation with Business Insider, helium said that Fortnite would beryllium taking vantage of Apple's caller policies "later this week."

Apple banned ‌Epic Games‌' U.S. developer account, but the institution has an relationship successful Sweden that it volition usage to bring Fortnite backmost to the U.S. ‌App Store‌. Sweeney said that helium would beryllium "very surprised" if Apple "decided to brave the geopolitical tempest of blocking a large app from iOS." He confirmed that ‌Epic Games‌ has informed Apple of what its plans are, truthful Apple is presumably alert that Fortnite volition soon beryllium submitted to the U.S. ‌App Store‌.

Later this year, ‌Epic Games‌ besides plans to launch Epic Games Store Webshops, a diagnostic that volition fto developers motorboat integer storefronts that are hosted by the ‌Epic Games‌ Store. Webshops volition beryllium escaped for developers making nether $1 cardinal annually per app, and for bigger developers, Epic volition cod a 12 percent fee.
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