Tim Sweeney is mocking Apple for letting Fortnite fakes into the App Store

Epic Games has been waiting for Apple to o.k. Fortnite for the US iOS App Store for astir a week, and present Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is utilizing X to effort and enactment unit connected Apple. On Thursday, helium highlighted examples of Fortnite lookalikes that are presently connected the App Store and made a nonstop entreaty to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

In one post, Sweeney included screenshots of the App Store listing for a crippled called Fort Battle Royale Epic Shoot. A screenshot successful the app listing shows a crippled with Fortnite-inspired graphics, but it’s wide if you look intimately that it isn’t the existent Fortnite. “Hey @AppStore tin we get the existent Fortnite up pls?” Sweeney asked. 

Soon after, Sweeney said that Fort Battle Royale Epic Shoot had been taken down from the App Store but besides highlighted different Fortnite clone, Epic Survival Battle Royale 3D. That app, arsenic of this writing, is inactive disposable connected the App Store. (Apple has thing of a past of letting unofficial fakes of fashionable games gaffe onto the store.)

Sweeney besides replied to a station Cook made earlier successful the day. “Hi Tim. How astir if you fto our communal customers entree Fortnite? Just a thought,” Sweeney wrote.

Shortly aft the April 30th ruling successful Epic Games v. Apple that blocked Apple from charging a interest connected purchases made extracurricular the App Store, Sweeney announced that Epic would bring Fortnite backmost to the US iOS App Store “next week.”

Epic said it submitted Fortnite to Apple on Friday, May 9th, but the app hasn’t yet been approved. (Apple’s website says that “on average, 90 percent of submissions are reviewed successful little than 24 hours.”)

Sweeney said yesterday that the institution submitted a caller mentation due to the fact that “we request to merchandise a play Fortnite update with caller contented this Friday, and each platforms indispensable update simultaneously.” But that updated submission inactive hasn’t been approved, either.

“We don’t person an update connected our Fortnite submission to the App Store,” Sweeney said earlier connected Thursday. “Apple has neither accepted nor rejected it. So the Friday update to Fortnite is present successful jeopardy.”

It’s unclear if that past condemnation means that Epic plans to hold the planned Friday Fortnite update for each platforms wherever Fortnite is disposable arsenic a effect of Apple not yet approving the update.

Apple and Epic Games didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.