US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down her highly anticipated ruling in the court case between Apple and Epic Games Friday, siding mostly with …
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down her highly anticipated ruling in the court case between Apple and Epic Games Friday, siding mostly with the iPhone maker. Epic had breached its contracts as a developer for Apple’s devices, she wrote. It had also failed to prove Apple’s App Store and associated developer rules constituted a monopoly. So what happens to Fortnite? Epic’s hit online battle game was kicked out of Apple’s App Store in August 2020 over a thing called V-Bucks, in-game currency which people used to buy new looks for their characters and weapons. Typically, players on iPhones have to pay for V-Bucks using Apple’s payment methods, which automatically take up to a 30% commission.
