Epic needs the court docket to compel Apple to approve Fortnite’s return to the US App Retailer

Epic has filed a “second movement to implement injunction,” asking the US District Courtroom for the Northern District of California to force Apple to do a well timed assessment of its Fortnite app and to approve its submission if it is compliant. The corporate not too long ago accused Apple of blocking Fortnite’s return to the App Retailer in each the US and the EU. Epic submitted the app for approval after successful its case in opposition to the iPhone-maker. Particularly, after the court docket ordered Apple to cease accumulating commissions on purchases that weren’t paid by way of the App Retailer and to permit exterior fee hyperlinks in-app.

After Epic mentioned that Apple was blocking Fortnite’s return to the App Retailer, the tech big wrote a letter addressed to the online game developer. In it, Apple mentioned it will not take action on Epic’s submission “till after the Ninth Circuit guidelines on [its] pending request for a partial keep of the brand new injunction.” It informed Epic to resubmit the app to the EU storefront individually from its US submission. Apple, in fact, filed an appeal in opposition to the court docket’s order to cease charging commissions for funds made outdoors the App Retailer. It additionally filed an emergency motion to place a pause on the order prohibiting it from charging commissions, telling the court docket that it’ll price the corporate “substantial sums yearly.”

In a put up on X, Epic mentioned that Apple’s suggestion to submit two totally different variations of Fortnite for assessment is in violation of its personal guideline that prohibits builders from submitting a number of variations of the identical app. “That’s not the usual Apple holds different builders to and it’s blocking us from releasing our replace within the EU and US,” it wrote. Epic additionally asserted that its submission did not break any guidelines this time. Apple’s denial, the online game developer claimed in its submitting, is a “blatant retaliation in opposition to Epic for difficult Apple’s anticompetitive habits and exposing its lies to the Courtroom, culminating within the Injunction and the Contempt Order.”