Today is a holiday for Apple, it is the day in which the guys from Cupertino will return to the stage, virtually, to present the latest devices of the brand. A new iPhone 13, but without a doubt what is under the spotlight is the new Apple Watch Series 7 that promises a big change. But we will leave all this for a few hours ... Now we return to one of the technological soap operas that has affected Apple the most: the war with Epic Games. A war that seems to have come to an end and that has come out "in favor" of Apple. Epic Games has paid $ 6 million to Apple following the ruling against it. Keep reading that we give you all the details.
And it is that in the end the complaints of Epic Games are not in vain. The payment that Epic Games has to make to Apple is in concept of damages because of all the mess they've gotten the Cupertino brand into. Before the removal of Fortnite from the Apple Store, Epic Games earned $ 12 million from Fortnite and for that reason Epic Games has to pay Apple 30% in concept of the Apple commission for the proceeds between August and October of the year 2020, and another 30% for the income between November 1 of that year and the date of the failure. According to the judge in the case, Apple does not have a monopoly on mobile games and therefore this judgment had no place.
Yes, too forces Apple to allow developers to add buttons to external links so that they allow their users pay directly without going through Apple control. On the part of Epic, they affirm that they will continue to fight for fair competition between payment methods within the app and the application stores. And they also confirm that Fortnite will never return to the iOS App Store.