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
I think Epic needs to do an about turn and accept Apple's app store conditions. There cannot be one rule for one company and another rule for somebody else.
Give Apple's closed ecosystem, there isn't much anyone can do. Epic can't skirt around the rules to try and offer a new payment method for Fortnite without breaking the rules. They are there for every developer, like it or hate it.
Android is slightly better but, again, I think it may be better to get on Google's side.
I'm not sure how the situation will be resolved in the end but I expect it will be with an apology, an out of court settlement and Epic's bloody nose.
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