Things are moving fast in the Epic Games vs Apple battle. After Fortnite was pulled from the App Store for breaking Apple’s rules including a direct payment method to get around the in-app purchase system Epic immediately filed a lawsuit against Apple. Now the game developer says that Apple is terminating its account.
Epic shared the update on Twitter today, calling the removal of its account a “retaliation” for filing a lawsuit against Apple. The developer says that Apple is planning to terminate all of its accounts and cut it off from iOS and Mac development tools on August 28.
Epic has asked the Northern District California court where it filed its lawsuit last week to block Apple from terminating its developer account. But considering how Apple expressed that it was willing to work with Epic Games to get Fortnite back on the App Store before and then Epic launched a lawsuit with a calculated protest, that may not be in the cards.
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Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are asking the court to stop this retaliation. Details here: https://t.co/3br1EHmyd8
— Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) August 17, 2020
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Apple terminating Epic’s developer account over Fortnite App Store protest
