Apple says it won’t yet ‘take action’ on Fortnite return to the App Store

Last week, Epic Games resubmitted Fortnite to the App Store in the United States. This followed a court ruling that stated Apple wasn’t allowed to charge a 27% commission on payments conducted through external payment services on the U.S. App Store. However, when it submitted the new version of Fortnite for app review, Epic Games didn’t hear back for quite some time. Tonight, Epic Games shared a letter that it says it received yesterday from Apple. This follows this mornings announcement that Apple had ‘blocked’ the launch of the new Fortnite update globally, which wasn’t necessarily the case. Instead, Apple simply didn’t want to touch the US version of Fortnite. Epic Games had bundled the two versions together, and Apple had then suggested that Epic Games submit the US and EU versions separately. In the letter shared, Apple stated the following: As you are well aware, Apple has previously denied requests to reinstate the Epic Games developer account, and we have informed you tha ... Read full article.