What an Epic week, amirite?!Place yer bets! Will Apple and Google defeat Epic Games in the court of law?
It's Sunday once again, and boy, there has been some Epic news in the past week...
That's right. The talk of the town in the past few days has been the Epic Games versus Apple (and Google) battle, because Epic Games violated Apple's App Store guidelines with the Fortnite V-Bucks discounts that they were offering, which were only available via direct payment to Epic, thus circumventing going through the App Store and giving Apple (Google also has a similar system in the Play Store) a 30% cut of any in-app purchases. Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store, then Epic Games released a "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" video that mocks Apple's iconic 1984 ad and sues Apple, and then Google also removed Fortnite from the Play Store, and is also being sued by Epic.
Honestly, I think the entire thing is a mess, and there's a lot of pettiness going on all around. However, I mean, what did Epic think was going to happe...
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What an Epic week, amirite?!
