"Epic Games' popular battle royale, Fortnite, has returned to the U.S. Google Play Store following a court order. The game maker had recently settled its five-year legal battle with the tech giant, which stemmed from a dispute around the percentage of in-app purchase sales that app developers had to share with the platforms. However, the company lost a little ground on its related lawsuit against Apple, which was also over in-app purchase restrictions and commission structure."
"Apple has been fighting the specific terms of that agreement, which were today partially overturned by an appeals court that called some of the restrictions "overbroad." Of note, the new filing states Apple can tell developers not to make their links to payments bigger or more prominent than Apple's own. It also says Apple is allowed to charge a fee on purchases made outside its App Store."
Fortnite returned to the U.S. Google Play Store after Google complied with a U.S. District Court injunction. Epic Games settled a five-year legal battle with Google over the percentage of in-app purchase sales developers must share with app platforms. Epic previously released a version of Fortnite in 2020 that routed around iOS and Android in-app payment systems, prompting Apple and Google to remove the game and sparking antitrust lawsuits. An appeals court partially overturned aspects of the Apple agreement as overbroad while permitting Apple to restrict prominence of external payment links and to charge fees on purchases made outside the App Store. The Apple outcome reduces developers' ability to fully bypass App Store commissions.
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