In the dispute with Epic Games over in-app purchases, Apple tightened the tone: The Fortnite makers stole Apple “to this day clearly ascertainable sums of money”, as the iPhone company puts forward in a judicial submission – man must therefore be able to enforce civil law claims against such behavior. Epic’s hidden introduction of an “unauthorized external payment system” deprives Apple of “daily increasing amounts”.

Apple: right of ownership to App sales The Casus Knacksus: Epic has its own payment interface secretly brought into Fortnite – a violation of Apple’s rules.

You have a “right of ownership” to the sales made by in-app purchases by iOS users are generated, Apple writes in the input (Epic Games vs. Apple, file number 4: 20 – cv – 05640, US Dictrict Court, Northern District of California) Digital content must be offered for purchase in iOS apps via Apple’s payment interface (In app purchase – IAP), other payment systems are not permitted . Apple can withhold up to 30 percent commission from every purchase. Several companies are now running a storm against this requirement and the amount of the commission.

Fortnite can be found in the app store Apple’s eviction can no longer be downloaded to iPhones and iPads, but can continue to be played if it is already installed. The latest version of the app contains, parallel to Apple’s in-app payment interface, an option to buy the game currency V-Bucks directly from Epic Games and thus Apple’s 30 – to bypass percentage commission – players can still use this. Epic’s secret integration of the hidden direct payment option originally triggered the dispute.

05640 Epic wants to integrate its own payment interface Epic wants to use the legal dispute to ensure that Apple and Google must allow alternative payment systems in apps for their platforms. The attempt to be allowed back to the App Store by means of a preliminary injunction with its own payment interface failed however