Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has said he has “no regrets” over his company’s decision to break Apple and Google’s terms of service back in August 2020 – something that saw the hugely-popular Fortnite booted off both iPhone and Android storefronts.
The carefully choreographed stunt sparked four years of legal wrangling over Apple and Google’s app store policies – and has ultimately led to Epic Games launching its own mobile store today on Android worldwide and on iPhone in mainland Europe, thanks to policy changes demanded of Apple by the EU.
“We’ve probably lost a billion dollars not having Fortnite on iOS the past four years,” Sweeney said, in a briefing to press ahead of the Epic Games Store on mobile going live. “But what’s the price of freedom?”
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