Epic says that Fortnite returns to iOS in Australia

Epic games announced That he brings Fortnite to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s application markets were anti -competitive. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on x This Fortnite will be made available on iPhones via the Epic Games store “on a date to be determined”, while the company sails in the complexities of the antitrust decision of Australia.

Epic continued Google in Australia In March 2021, after continuing Apple in November 2020. A single court managed the two cases in parallel, even if they were not deposited at the same time.

On Tuesday, Federal Judge Jonathan Beach noted that Apple and Google had misused the domination of the market for their application and commission costs in the application up to 30% to reduce competition, the Australian financial review Reports. However, Beach rejected Epic’s claims that technology giants had broken consumer law or are committed to “inadmissible conduct” – which means a particularly severe, unjust or oppressive behavior that goes against societal standards. We are still waiting for more details of the Beach’s final judgment, which represents more than 2,000 pages and will not be released publicly.

“We welcome the rejection by the court of EPIC requirements that we distribute application stores from Google Play Store, and EPIC attacks against other critical security protections on which users count,” said Google spokesperson Dan Jackson, in a press release The penis.

“However, we do not agree with the characterization by the court of our billing policies and practices, as well as its conclusions concerning some of our historic partnerships, which have all been shaped in a fiercely competitive mobile landscape for users and developers,” said Jackson. “We will examine the complete decision when we receive it and assess our next steps.”

In a declaration at Australia ABC NewsAn Apple’s unnamed spokesman said that the company hosted the court rejection of some of the allegations of Epic, but that it does not agree with other aspects of the decision. “Apple faces fierce competition on each market where we operate,” said the spokesperson. “We are constantly investing and innovating to make the App Store the safest place for users to obtain applications and an excellent commercial opportunity for developers in Australia and in the world.”

Meanwhile, in the American version of the Google test, Epic continuously won: at the end of 2023, a jury unanimously decided that Google transformed its play store and play Billing System into an illegal monopoly and a panel of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals I just said this decision at the end of July.

This decision could explode Google’s control over its app store In weeks or monthsUnless Google obtains the ninth circuit to grant a suspension while it calls to the Supreme Court of the United States or grants a complete review in the bench of the decision of the three judges. Google maintains that Apple’s decision should be relevant to the Google decision, but so far, the American courts are disagreeing.