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Epic Games is continuing its campaign to get Fortnite back on the iPhone in the U.S., and it's looking like Apple might have to fold. Last
Fortnite's return to the iOS App Store is imminent. This follows a US court ruling that mandates Apple must allow developers to
Epic Games’ wildly popular multiplayer shooter game “Fortnite” was available again on Apple’s app store in the US on Tuesday, capping a ban of nearly five years and marking a major win for the video company.
Fortnite hasn’t been approved by Apple for the U.S. App Store, but access to the game for EU users is now in dispute.
Fortnite says it’s unavailable on Apple’s iOS globally because the tech giant blocked a bid to rerelease the popular video game for iPhone users in the U.S. and Europe.
The problem is that Apple is specifically not allowed to “prohibit” the use of external payment links. It can reject apps, or ban developer accounts, at its own discretion. But if it rejects an app or bans a dev for no reason other than its use of such links, does that amount to a de facto prohibition? Again, that’s debatable.
Not only has Fortnite not returned to U.S. iPhones in the App Store, it’s now suspended from those European iPhones which had it.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple’s iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT. OpenAI said it is acquiring io, a product and engineering company co-founded by Ive, in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion.