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#FreeFortnite: Epic Games takes on Apple and Google over payment platforms – The Market Herald
The world’s biggest game developer has waged war against the world’s biggest tech company today: Epic Games and Apple are going head-to-head over the iOS payment system.
- Epic Games has launched legal action against Apple after the iPhone maker banned Fortnite from the iOS App Store
- The ban was a response to Epic Games deliberately breaching Apple’s terms of service by introducing its own payment platform to the mobile version of Fortnite
- Usually, Apple takes a 30 per cent cut of all purchase made through iPhone apps, however, Epic Games’ payment method circumvented this process
- Hours after the iOS ban, Google removed Fortnite from…
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