The escalation comes the week after Epic Games, makers of Fortnite, released a new direct payment mechanism designed to bypass the App Store's payment system, from which Apple takes 30%.
Epic Games said on Monday that Apple had given it until August 28 before removing the game makers' developer accounts, which would make it unable to release new games or publish updates to its current apps. Currently, Epic Games publishes one game on the U.S. App Store, a puzzle game called Battle Breakers. Epic Games also makes the Unreal Engine, which many iPhone and Android games use to integrate realistic graphics and physics.
"Then when Epic sued Apple to break its monopoly on app stores and in-app payments, Apple retaliated ferociously," Epic Games lawyers wrote in a Monday filing. "It told Epic that by August 28, Apple will cut off Epic's access to all development tools necessary to create software for Apple's platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers, which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy.
Epic Games is claiming that Apple is "attacking Epic's entire business in unrelated areas." It's seeking an injunction that will "preserve status quo" and permit the company to continue to sell apps on the App Store. Last week, Epic Games also rolled out a marketing campaign encouraging players to "join the fight" against Apple. The short video made by Epic Games included an unflattering caricature of Cook as a rotten apple., which runs the Play Store for Android phones. It has similar policies to Apple on in-app purchases and fees, but the Android operating system provides ways to install software outside of Google's marketplace, including third-party app stores.
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