Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has announced through from your official account from Twitter, that last night Apple He had informed his company by email stating:

“Fortnite will be blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem until all court appeals are exhausted, which could be a process of up to 5 years.”

This comes after Apple said in court and to the press that it welcomed Epic to its App Store as long as it agreed to play by the same rules as the rest of the developers. Epic had accepted the deal “And now Apple has reneged on another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users“. We will have to wait and see if Fortnite one day returns to the devices of the bitten apple ..

“Dear Gary,

I am responding to your recent request that Apple reinstate the Epic Developer Program account, which was terminated for cause last year. Epic committed willful breach of contract, and breach of trust, by hiding the code from Apple and making related misrepresentations and omissions.

In its decision, the court recognized that “Apple had contractual rights to act as it did. It simply applied those rights as the internal documents of [Epic] show that Epic Games expected. “ECF No. 812 at 178-79. The court further found that” Apple’s termination of the [Acuerdo de Licencia del Programa de Desarrolladores] and the related agreements between Epic Games and Apple was valid, legal and enforceable. “Id. at 179.

Following that decision, Mr. Sweeney has publicly stated that Epic “[no cambiaría [un sistema de pago alternativo] to get Fortnite back on iOS. “In light of this and other statements since the court’s decision, along with Epic’s deceptive conduct in the past, Apple has exercised its discretion not to reset Epic’s developer program account. at this time. Additionally, Apple will not consider any further reinstatement requests until the district court’s judgment is final and unappealable.

Sincerely,

/s/ Mark A. Perry”