{"id":21840,"date":"2021-09-11T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/epic-games-secure-major-win-in-fortnite-lawsuit-against-apple"},"modified":"2024-07-21T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T01:01:04","slug":"epic-games-secure-major-win-in-fortnite-lawsuit-against-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/epic-games-secure-major-win-in-fortnite-lawsuit-against-apple","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games secure major win in Fortnite lawsuit against Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epic Games<\/a> has secured a massive win in their lawsuit against Apple Inc. The lawsuit came as a result of Apple removing Fortnite from the App Store<\/a>, citing that the developers “violated their company guidelines.” The U.S. District Court ultimately ruled that Apple can no longer stop app developers from redirecting users to their own payment solutions, existing outside of Apple’s App Store. Apple’s claim that all purchases should be made inside the app store was rejected after a federal judge ruled it “anti-competitive.”<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court rule in favour of Epic in lawsuit against Apple<\/h2>\n

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court ruled that it could not “conclude that Apple is a monopolist” but issued a permanent injunction barring Apple from prohibiting the ability for developers to redirect users to payment methods outside of the App Store. The ruling is set to take effect starting on the 9th of December this year unless an appeal is made ahead of this date.<\/p>\n

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Epic Games secure massive win against Apple in Fortnite lawsuit (Picture: James Yarema on Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An excerpt of the injunction<\/a> read as follows:<\/p>\n

“Apple Inc […] are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from (i) including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact, obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.”<\/p>\n

Federal judge rules that Apple \"illegally stifles consumer choice.\"
Federal judge rules that Apple “illegally stifles consumer choice.” (Picture: Epic Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Apple representative issued a statement in response to the U.S. District Court ruling, which read: “Today the Court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law.”<\/p>\n

The statement continued by adding: “Apple faces rigorous competition in every segment in which we do business, and we believe customers and developers choose us because our products and services are the best in the world.”<\/p>\n

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Apple’s response to U.S. District Court ruling in Epic Games lawsuit. (Picture: Twitter \/ Mark Gurman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Epic Games’ CEO, Tim Sweeney, responded to the statement in a post on Twitter, which read: Today’s ruling isn’t a win for developers or for consumers” and affirmed that “Epic is fighting for fair competition among in-app payment methods.”<\/p>\n