Fortnite returns to Apple's App Store after a legal victory

Apple restored the popular game Fortnite on Tuesday in the USA on Tuesday, almost five years after it was thrown out of business and his developer sued the Tech giant in a antitrust case.

The reinstatement of Fortnite, a multiplayer video game with millions of daily users around the world, is the result of the latest turns in a long-term federal court.

Last month, a judge of the US district court decided for the Northern District of California that Apple cannot reject apps in order to absorb links to external payment methods with which developers can avoid the 30 percent commission of the App Store.

Apple informed the developer of the game, epic games, days later that it had contractual law to reject an app from business, as court documents show. But Epic said Apple surrounded the verdict.

On Monday, judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Apple asked Fortnite to restore the App Store or return to court in order to prove that it has a legal basis for not doing this. The next day, Fortnite was back on iPhones and iPads in the United States, and Epic and Apple signed the court a joint explanation in which he had settled this specific dispute.

Representatives of Epic and Apple did not respond late Tuesday to inquiries about comments.

Her fight started in 2020 when the game manufacturer encouraged the Fortnite IOS app users to pay them directly, and not via the App Store. There were also Android users instructions to handle Google's payment system.