The Epic Apple Battle
Early this morning I saw a bunch of tweets from various people showing off how Fortnite was allowing users to pay less with an App Store payment bypass. This allowed customers to purchase the battle pass with either an in app purchase, or for a few dollars less, a credit card directly through the app. This has been known since 2008 to be against Apple's rules and Apple doesn't like it when you break their rules.
Fortnite just added the a choice to bypass using In-App purchases on iOS....
— Owen Williams âš¡ (@ow) August 13, 2020
If it did this with permission, this will be a huge change for the App Store.
If it didn't and Apple tries to remove it, it will expose how the rules are deeply unfair. https://t.co/526FxHw2eS pic.twitter.com/OhkagC5cza
The rumors and questions were flying. Would Apple allow this to continue? After all, Fortnite is one of the biggest games of all time with over 350 million accounts. Would they change their ways and allow Epic's Fortnite to continue like this and forever change the landscape of the App Store?