No reaction from Apple: Epic Games is enough “Fortnite” in the App Store

Fans of “Fortnite” have to be patient until you can use the Battle Royale shooter on the iPhone again: Despite submitting the game at Apple’s App Store last Friday, manufacturer Epic Games has no feedback. Now it should be a new attempt, the head of the game group, who rarely embarrassed, announced Tim Sweeney, On Wednesday on X to.

“Fortnite” app withdrawn and newly submitted

After Apple did not touch, Epic Games first pulled the game back. The reason: On Friday tomorrow, you want to deliver new content on all platforms – and the update must be done simultaneously. “So we withdrawn the previous” Fortnite “version that we submitted to Apple’s app review last Friday and submitted a new version for checking.” The question is now whether Apple is faster this time.

Usually it should only take 24 hours with “90 percent of the apps submitted” before the app review has examined and released an application. However, “Fortnite” is a very special case: Epic Games and Apple have been involved in a legal dispute for five years, which is about whether the game can contain shopping opportunities directly on the web – and thus without a commission for Apple. After Epic Games had submitted a corresponding feature hidden, Apple blocked the app. The submission of a prepared lawsuit followed.

Spotify and Amazon are already selling on the web

Now Epic Games had success in one of the many procedures: A judge forced Apple to stop by collecting sales commissions in web payments-which was 27 percent in the top-and at the same time introducing a freedom of link. Result: Both Spotify and Amazon’s Kindle app now come with web payments without Apple seeing a cent. Both apps were also easily approved. Only “Fortnite”, the actual trigger of the whole dispute, is apparently (initially) ignored.

This could possibly bring the iPhone group even more trouble in the legal dispute, even if it has already appealed. So far, Sweeney has not given any information on how Epic Games will react if nothing continues to do. However, the app review process is “unusually long”, according to the manager, who completed the sentence with a skull emoji.