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Fortnite’s Epic Games brings Apple legal fight to Australia – Sydney Morning Herald
Epic founder Tim Sweeney says Apple’s conduct breaches consumer law, iPhone should be opened up to competing app stores and payment methods.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that while smartphone app stores were a novelty 12 years ago, and a 70 per cent take was a good deal for developers, a huge chunk of the world’s economy would soon be processed through mobile platforms and change was sorely needed.
“Apple has said they have the legal right to do whatever the hell they want because they make the devices. Under Apple’s legal theory they could charge 90 per cent. The very notion that they’re standing on…
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