Epic desires the court docket to compel Apple to approve Fortnite’s return to the US App Retailer

Epic has filed a “second movement to implement injunction,” asking the US District Courtroom for the Northern District of California to force Apple to do a well timed assessment of its Fortnite app and to approve its submission if it is compliant. The corporate not too long ago accused Apple of blocking Fortnite’s return to the App Retailer in each the US and the EU. Epic submitted the app for approval after profitable its case towards the iPhone-maker. Particularly, after the court docket ordered Apple to cease gathering commissions on purchases that weren’t paid by way of the App Retailer and to permit exterior cost hyperlinks in-app.

After Epic stated that Apple was blocking Fortnite’s return to the App Retailer, the tech large wrote a letter addressed to the online game developer. In it, Apple stated it will not take action on Epic’s submission “till after the Ninth Circuit guidelines on [its] pending request for a partial keep of the brand new injunction.” It advised Epic to resubmit the app to the EU storefront individually from its US submission. Apple, in fact, filed an appeal towards the court docket’s order to cease charging commissions for funds made exterior the App Retailer. It additionally filed an emergency motion to place a pause on the order prohibiting it from charging commissions, telling the court docket that it’ll value the corporate “substantial sums yearly.”

In a publish on X, Epic stated that Apple’s suggestion to submit two completely different variations of Fortnite for assessment is in violation of its personal guideline that prohibits builders from submitting a number of variations of the identical app. “That’s not the usual Apple holds different builders to and it’s blocking us from releasing our replace within the EU and US,” it wrote. Epic additionally asserted that its submission did not break any guidelines this time. Apple’s denial, the online game developer claimed in its submitting, is a “blatant retaliation towards Epic for difficult Apple’s anticompetitive habits and exposing its lies to the Courtroom, culminating within the Injunction and the Contempt Order.”