Yup - I said the SAME thing days ago in my thread.
"The current predicament appears of its own making,” Rogers wrote, arguing that Epic “strategically chose to breach its agreements with Apple”
Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite - theverge.com/2020/8/25/2140…
The fact that Epic intentionally violated the ToS is how this erupted into a crisis of their own making. And the judge agreed. Saw this coming a mile away.
The issue here now is that even though the judge granted the UE engine a reprieve, it's a temporary one because if down the road Apple successfully argues that you can't just remove one product and not the other when a corp violates a ToS, that's going to be utterly bad.
It's why even Valve yanks a corp's entire catalog when even one of their titles violates the Steam ToS.
So unless Epic restores the previous ver of Fortnite - and Apple let's it back on - it won't be back on iOS for years.
With this lawsuit, Apple has zero incentive to let Fortnite back on because they don't make money on free games. Heck, lots of corps (e.g. Spotify) are suing Apple without having to breach their ToS - so their apps are still on the app store while the cases go on.
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