Epic Games vs Apple: the trial won't start until mid-2021

For those who do not know anything about the story, in recent weeks a real media hurricane has been unleashed around Fortnite, the famous Battle Royale title epic Games. The development team, in fact, has recently decided to introduce a new payment system in Fortnite designed specifically for versions Android e iOS of title. This system allows players to purchase directly within the game, thus bypassing Apple's payment processing and avoid the 30% tax on purchases. In response to this,  Apple has decided to remove the title from the App Store.

In a statement sent to The Verge, Apple said it removed Fortnite from the App Store for violated company guidelines, stating that the change was done with intent to violate these guidelines and that has not been reviewed or approved by Apple. Shortly after Epic Games, via a post published on the account Twitter Fortnite official, has announced that it has opened a lawsuit against Apple, because of his monopolistic and unfair behavior against the competition. The story subsequently underwent a further twist. Fortnite has in fact also been removed from the devices Android, and the result of that action is that epic Games, as it did with Apple, he decided to sue also Google.

This whole thing is seen as a potentially historic cause, challenging the frontiers of the law antitrust, according to the judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers did not provide a deadline for a decision on the injunction and further added that given her schedule, the trial is unlikely to take place before July 2021. Finally he added that he would prefer the case to be tried before a jury. However, according to the first analysis of the case, it seems that Epic Games is the "guilty"Of the story, aware that he is in breach of his contract with Apple when he posted the update.