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Company totally closes the door to Epic Games

The conflict between Apple and Epic Games has developed further. The platform owner has now threatened the Fortnite developer to completely remove his account from the App Store. Write about this CNBC. This means that the studio will lose access to the development tools on iOS and Mac.
Epic Games noted that Apple has set a deadline of August 28. If the parties do not reach an agreement by that time, the studio will be excluded from the developer program and will no longer be able to launch its applications or publish updates for current services. The ban could also restrict the use of another Epic Games product, the Unreal Engine, which is used by many third-party developers. Epic went to court to block such Apple actions.
Grigory Bakunov, author of the Addmeto telegram channel and director of technology distribution at Yandex, believes that third parties will still be able to use the Unreal Engine, but, he said, they may have problems with Unreal Studio and other Epic Games tools.
As noted by Tjournal, deleting a developer account is standard procedure in case of violation of the App Store rules. Initially, Apple was eager to bring Fortnite back to its store, but the strategy probably changed after the conflict turned into legal action.
As a reminder, the conflict between Epic Games and Apple broke out in mid-August. Fortnite developers secretly tried to launch the game's currency sale bypassing the App Store to avoid paying a 30 percent commission. Because of this, Apple removed the app from the store. In response, Epic Games filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing the owner of the platform of anti-competitive behavior.
Immediately after that, a similar conflict with Google was learned. The company that owns Android also found that Epic Games' shares did not comply with Google Play policies and removed its game. In response, Epic Games also filed a lawsuit against Google.
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney called his actions to fight for the rights of consumers and developers. He said that in the current situation, platform owners can dictate their terms and called this state of affairs terrible. Sweeney talked about the need to fight for your rights, even if it is "a favorite company like Apple".

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