{"id":342858,"date":"2021-09-22T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/apple-bars-fortnite-from-app-store-epic-games-ceo-says\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:39:43","slug":"apple-bars-fortnite-from-app-store-epic-games-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/apple-bars-fortnite-from-app-store-epic-games-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"#Apple bars &#8216;Fortnite&#8217; from App Store, Epic Games CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le bars &#8216;Fortnite&#8217; from App Store, Epic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>s CEO says<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Epic Games Chief Executive Officer Tim Sweeney said on Wednesday\u00a0Apple\u00a0informed the \u201cFortnite\u201d owner that the video game will be blacklisted from the iPhone maker\u2019s popular App Store for several years until all the court appeals are done.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games\u2019 opening brief in its appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is due Dec. 12, according to a court filing and\u00a0Apple\u2019s reply is due by Jan. 20, 2022. The full appeal process could take years.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney took to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> on Wednesday, calling out\u00a0Apple\u2019s move and said the company will continue to fight the tech giant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another extraordinary anticompetitive move by\u00a0Apple, demonstrating their power to reshape markets and choose winners and losers.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CGIw2x\">Tim Sweeney said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u00a0confirmed the authenticity of the letter that Sweeney shared, but declined to comment further.\u00a0Apple\u00a0has not yet said whether it will ask for the injunction to be paused pending the appeal process.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. tech giant is facing a raft of legal and regulatory challenges to rules it forces game makers to follow, including the closely watched antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Fortnite logo displayed on a laptop\" class=\"wp-image-19543729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Epic Games\u2019 CEO says its popular \u201cFortnite\u201d game is being barred by Apple as a result of Epic\u2019s antitrust fight against the much-bigger tech giant. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Tim Cook\" class=\"wp-image-19543683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/apple-bans-epic-games-fortnite4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Apple, led by Tim Cook, is saying little on the matter of \u201cFortnite\u201d being barred from Apple\u2019s App Store.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, a U.S. federal judge struck down some of\u00a0Apple\u2019s App Store rules, forcing the company to allow developers to send their users to other payment systems in a partial win for Epic Games and other app makers.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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