Following as we speak’s court verdict that blew a relatively massive gap via Apple’s grubby mitts, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney introduced that Fortnite might be returning to the iOS App Store in the US next week.
The sport has been off the retailer for over 4 years at this level following some backwards and forwards shenanigans between Apple and Epic, the place Epic determined to protest Apple’s 30% in-app buy tax by including its personal in-app fee system inside the sport that bypassed Apple’s. Since this was an apparent (and deliberate) breach of App Store pointers, Apple eliminated the sport from the retailer, although the sport was wildly in style at the time. Epic instantly introduced it was suing Apple and likewise launched a collection of anti-Apple movies.
We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.
Epic places forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop present and future litigation on the subject. https://t.co/bIRTePm0Tv
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) April 30, 2025
Four years later, Epic appears to have gotten what it requested for, which is to enable builders to use their very own fee methods freed from Apple’s fee in addition to scare techniques in direction of its customers. Sweeney additionally said in his X publish that as a peace providing, Epic Games will drop all present and future litigation on the subject if Apple extends the US court’s choice worldwide.
Considering Apple has already gone on report stating that it’s going to attraction the US court’s choice, it is unlikely that Sweeney’s provide might be accepted. However, with an Apple VP being discovered mendacity on the report to the court, Apple’s possibilities of overturning the choice appear considerably slim at the second.