After the European Commission prepared to intervene in the investigation, Apple restored Epic Games’ developer account in the EU and allowed Epic Games Store to enter the EU App Store.
Results in the European CommissionPrepare to intervene in the investigationAfterwards, Apple immediately restored the permissions of Epic Games’ developer account in the European Union, and stated in the relevant statement that Epic Games was willing to commit to complying with the regulations, so it added Epic Games’ developer account in Sweden back to the Apple Developer Program.
Prior to this, the market believed that Apple suddenly banned Epic Games’ developer accounts in the EU and global regions in order to prevent Epic Games from launching the third-party game software market in the EU.
However, Apple stated that it had previously banned the developer account of Epic Games because Epic Games had previously violated the App Store usage regulations, and the court had ruled that Apple has the right to decide on its own when to ban the developer account permissions of Epic Games.
According to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s previous communication with Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior executive responsible for App Store-related business, through letters, he believed that Tim Sweeney’s response to Apple’s new rules for the third-party software market was not thorough enough, so he believed that Epic Games did not There was no specific commitment to abide by all the new rules, so it was determined that Epic Games still had the possibility of breaking the contract, and its developer account permissions were closed.
As for Apple’s immediate restoration of Epic Games’ developer accounts in the EU after the European Commission’s investigation, Tim SweeneyexpressThe European Commission is very efficient in enforcing digital market laws. It also announced that its Epic Games Store game software market will enter the App Store in the EU and will bring “Fortnite” back to the iOS platform in the EU.