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Apple can Keep on Obstructing iOS Fortnite since Epic Games trial Goes Ahead

Artist's conception of competing lawyers from Apple and Epic Game focusing their legal arguments on the court. Metaphorically, of course.

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Apple can still continue to obstruct Epic Games’ Fortnite in the iOS App Store since the parties go to your trial, Federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers stated in a ruling issued late Friday.

In that the 39-page judgment , Judge Rogers restates her prior finding any injury Epic is presently confronting to the Fortnite company, or into the game’s standing, is self-inflicted on Epic’s part. The business caused the present condition of affairs as it issued a hotfix upgrade offering a brand new Epic Direct Payments in-app buy (IAP) platform for Fortnite, a transfer that has been in direct breach of its iOS App Store growth contract with Apple.

“In summary, Epic Games can’t merely exclaim’monopoly’ to unveil arrangements giving itself extrinsic advantage,” Judge Rogers writes Epic’s petition for an injunction assigning Fortnite into the App Store. “The present situation is of its own making”

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