NEW YORK, July 31. / TASS /. Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has slammed Apple, backing Fortnite video game developer Epic Games in a dispute with it.
“Commissions in the Apple App Store have become de facto the global Internet tax,” the entrepreneur told Friday. Twitter… According to him, it would be fair to “allow developers to use their own payment mechanisms, in particular to make purchases in their own applications”.
So, Musk backed Epic Games, which is suing Apple. Last August, a video game developer filed an antitrust complaint against a company run by Tim Cook after an updated version of Fortnite with a built-in payment mechanism was removed from the App Store. According to Apple, the game was able to bypass its own payment mechanism, which provides for a commission of up to 30%. “Epic is right,” Musk concluded.
In late May, a judge in Oakland, Calif., Said she hoped to rule on the Epic Games and Apple case by August 13, a year after the game’s update was released on the App. Store. Last fall, an Oakland court was already debating whether Apple should restore access to Fortnite, when the game’s deletion was deemed legitimate.
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