Epic is asking District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to overview — and approve if compliant with Apple’s tips — Epic’s submission of Fortnite to the US App Store in a brand new courtroom submitting. The firm argues within the doc that Apple is as soon as once more in contempt of the decide’s April order limiting it from rejecting apps over their use of out of doors cost hyperlinks.
In a letter from Apple that Epic shared late Friday, Apple writes that it received’t “take motion on the Fortnite app submission till after the Ninth Circuit guidelines on our pending request for a partial keep of the brand new injunction.” Epic claims the delay is retaliation for its authorized battle with the corporate, and notes in its submitting that Apple “expressly and repeatedly” informed it and the courtroom that it will approve Fortnite if the app complied with Apple’s tips, which it insists its present submission does.
Epic claimed that was as a result of it may possibly’t launch within the EU due to Apple’s choice to dam its US submission. Apple mentioned it had merely requested that it resubmit the app with out together with the US storefront, “in order to not impression Fortnite in different geographies.” But in a publish saying its new submitting, Epic claims that might imply it has to submit a number of variations of the app, which it says is in opposition to Apple’s tips.
Epic is asking that the courtroom implement its injunction, discover Apple in contempt once more, and require the corporate to “settle for any compliant Epic app, together with Fortnite, for distribution on the U.S. storefront of the App Store.”
The hitch right here is that all through this case, Judge Gonzalez Rogers hasn’t gone as far as to require Fortnite’s return to the shop, discovering in her 2021 ruling that Epic had nonetheless knowingly damaged its developer settlement with apple. 9to5Mac writes that the decide would doubtless have to agree that Apple is as soon as once more in contempt of courtroom, as she did in her April thirtieth ruling. The distinction between from time to time — and what may work in Epic’s favor — is simply how irritated she appeared with Apple within the textual content of that ruling.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.
