Donald Mustard, the Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games, is retiring and leaving the company this month after being an instrumental part of making the popular battle royale shooter Fortnite into what it is today.
Monday, 03 May 2021 07:18 AM MYT
Win or lose at the trial, Epic Games, which has pursued an aggressive public relations campaign against Apple alongside its court pleadings, may have already accomplished a major goal: Drawing Apple squarely into the global debate over whether and how massive technology companies should be regulated. Reuters pic
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 Epic Games faces an uphill legal battle against Apple Inc in an antitrust trial starting today, and a defeat for the maker of
Fortnite could make it harder for US government regulators to pursue a similar case against the iPhone maker, legal experts said.
02 May 2021, 11:05 pm
Epic Games is still going against Apple in a lawsuit dispute of Fortnite s payment system. Initially, the game developer has been ruled out by the courts as having breached the Apple s App Store rules. However, Apple uses revenue data of Fortnite to go against the game s return to iOS, saying that the PS4 is the reason for half of its earnings and income.
(Photo : Greg Miller via Twitter (@GameOverGreggy))
The tactic of Apple is to show that Fortnite and Epic Games are not benefiting from its mobile platforms, particularly with the iOS which only made up seven (7) percent of what Epic has made from 2018 to 2020. This data was before the issue of Epic Games with the Cupertino giant which has ensued last August 2020, when the pandemic was at its height.
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