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Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe (arstechnica.com)

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Apple has agreed to reinstate Epic Game's Swedish iOS developer account just days after Epic publicized Apple's decision to rescind that account. The move once again paves the way for Epic's plans to release a sideloadable version of the Epic Games Store and Fortnite on iOS devices in Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In correspondence with Epic shared by the Fortnite maker Wednesday, Apple executive Phil Schiller put an even finer point on it:

"We have the DMA coming into compliance [Thursday], so the demand of compliance is... listen, you need to be able to carry another app store, for instance, and you cannot put in place a fee structure that sort of disables the benefits of the DMA for all the market participants," European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager told Bloomberg TV Tuesday.

In an update on its official blog, Epic linked Apple's decision to "public backlash for retaliation" and said the whole affair "sends a strong signal to developers that the European Commission will act swiftly to enforce the Digital Markets Act and hold gatekeepers accountable.

We are moving forward as planned to launch the Epic Games Store and bring Fortnite back to iOS in Europe.

In a social media post celebrating Apple's move, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said that "the DMA just had its first major victory" and called the move "a big win for European rule of law, for the European Commission, and for the freedom of developers worldwide to speak up."

But that battle, which played out primarily in a series of US courts, differed in many particulars from the new conflict that was developing under the new enforcement regime surrounding Europe's DMA rules.

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