This is tiresome, and still old news from last August just being hammered again because Epic aren't making progress in their lawsuits.
The appstore rules are black and white.
Epic violated them, plain and simple.
Apple does not have a monopoly on mobile gaming ecosystems, and their rules for the app store are similar to many rules set by Nintendo for their consoles. If Epic want to tap Apple's ecosystem, they need to abide by the rules set up by the ecosystem owners. That tappable market of customers didn't just spring into existence for the benefit of Epic Games, it was crafted over two decades and billions of USD of investment and reinvestment. Just because Tim Sweeney doesn't want to pay for that doesn't mean he's legally entitled to a slice of it. Competition law grants him the freedom to make his own phones or consoles and entice customers to use them instead of Apple or Nintendo, should he choose to do so.
Tim sweeny is just a spoilt billionaire who thinks he's above the law because he's a multi-billionaire. Screw him, and in a more general sense, screw Epic board members for some very consumer-unfriendly moves in the last half decade. Apple may be the bad guys but that doesn't mean that everyone fighting Apple is doing it for philanthropic reasons.
