US Judge… so a US ruling… so… will it affect non-US consumers?
Yeah but we don’t listen to judges any more.
We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.
Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.
What does this mean?
Well this policy change is likely going to be US only.
Epic no longer has to pay apple 30% in the US, but they would like it to be that way across the world.
What Epic is proposing is if Apple makes the policy change for the whole world, they’ll stop suing them over their obvious anti competitive practices. Doing so would avoid the risk of them losing future court cases and losing more of a grip that they have over their platform.
I don’t think Apple will go for it, so here’s hoping they lose more down the line.
