Tim Sweeny is the majority shareholder of Epic Games. He'd have to remove himself.
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Apple Wants $73.4 Million From Epic Games to Cover Its Legal Expenses
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People will be able to sideload Fortnite soon, at least in Europe.
Apple has the people with the most money. That’s the problem everyone has. Epic are just leaving money on the table if you don’t produce for Apple. All that will happen is clone apps of their biggest games will make more money than their own games!
Ultimately was it really worth it?
I’d love to see how much money Epic has lost over this?
It must be ridiculous. Are they a public company? I can’t believe they are or sweeney would have gone ages ago.
I’d love to see how much money Epic has lost over this?
It must be ridiculous. Are they a public company? I can’t believe they are or sweeney would have gone ages ago.
He's five times as rich as Tim Cook, so I think he'll be fine.
I read, 'Apple wants $73.4 million' and thought they must be talking about a new product!
Tim Sweeny owns 51% of it. Epic Games has a market cap of over $30 billion, they'll be fine. It was worth a try, and for Tim Sweeny it was a question of principle, not merely of money.
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Billable hours remain undefeatedLawyers are quite expensive
Maybe. Or Apple will lose. We don't know yet...lose the court case being discussed in this article.
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Anyone know if Epic pays Microsoft or Sony for in-app purchases on X-BOX or PS?
Yeah, they are giving Epic 10% back in Apple Gift Cards.
How many Vision Pros will Epic be ordering on Friday?
Plus considering that without Apple, Epic wouldn't be as Epic as they are now.
They would still be selling boxed games at CompUSA and Best Buy.
They can always allow them to use Huawei.
By the way, whenever I look for Huawei on my Mac the following definition appears instead:
The case is already settled what is Apple going to lose?
Seeing how Apple filed a bad-faith "compliance" plan they should fight back
Once the lawsuit is over, it will be interesting to see if Apple lets Fortnite back on the App Store. Especially since I anticipate Android phones will promote Fortnite and the epic store through a partnership as a result of the google play store anti-trust verdict. Fortnite makes money, Apple wants to make money. Apple doesn’t want to have commercials to kids saying can’t play Fortnite on iPhone, but you can on Android.
As poorly as Sweeney handled this, and acknowledging that they did, admittedly, violate the license agreement, the suit wasn’t entirely frivolous. They did it in the most ass way possible but eventually someone was going to test that policy in court.
In the end they just hurt themselves and precedent more than anything.
This damages motion is as much a warning to others as anything. Don’t try it, because not only can Apple afford more justice than you, you’re going to be paying for it anyway.
So the big question is whether Fortnite will return to the App Store? As a result of the other issue the SCOTUS refused to take up Apple must now allow developers to “steer” their customers to an outside payment system, right? But Apple still gets a cut of that too I believe.
I don’t get the users here wanting harm to come to Epic. Hopefully none of you decide to develop an app because your opinion will change very fast…
Seems fair considering Epic is dragging this out as long as they possibly can.
Huh!? Have you been following the whole story and understand what has lead to this point? It seems not as that is a very odd thing to day. This is entirely self inflicted by Epic.