Having disappeared from iOS devices a few years ago (in 2020), Fortnite – still a very popular video game – should return to iPhones in 2024… at least in Europe.
That’s an epic angleAdvertisement on X : Fortnite will return this year through the Epic Games Store. And this point is important: the company will distribute it only through its own application store, and therefore not on the App Store, as it was a few years ago. Innovation made possible by the implementation of DMA. Apple this evening outlined the new features expected in March with iOS 17.4, and Alternative Stores is one of them.
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Epic boss Tim Sweeney also directly blames Apple on : He explains that it would be illegal for them to have to choose between distribution on the App Store and wider distribution, the fact that Apple wants to validate alternative stores is not a good idea (which shows that Apple prevented Epic from launching Epic games store) and imposing an “Apple” tax on transactions that do not involve Apple is still a problem.
