For over a year now, Epic Games has been opposing Apple over its application store. The confrontation is played out at the same timein the legal fieldbut also media. Far from being over, the latter continues and we have just learned that Tim Sweeney, the president of Epic Games, will be present in Seoul next week to participate in a conference dedicated to fairness on gaming platforms. mobile applications.
A coalition for more regulation on the App Store
As explained in a press release published for the occasion, the manager will participate in this event with other representatives of the Coalition for App Fairness, a collective of developers who advocate fairer rules on the App Store and Google Play Store. Among them, we find the publisher of Tinder, Match Group, and even Spotify.
The location where the conference will be held is also anything but trivial. South Korea has indeedadopted this summer a lawaimed at preventing Apple and Google from forcing developers to use their payment systems on their app stores. This decision could be emulated and inspire decision-makers around the world.
Following the adoption of this device, the Cupertino company then expressed its opposition:
The proposed law on telecommunications companies will expose users who purchase digital goods from other sources to fraud risks, undermine their privacy protections, make it difficult to manage their purchases, and features such as “ Ask to Buy” and parental controls will become less effective.
Epic Games, for its part, is asking Apple to reinstate its game Fortnite on the App Store in South Korea. Remember that the latter was withdrawn, everywhere in the world, in August 2020. The new Korean law has not yet come into force but the apple brand has already made it known that it has no intention of reinstating the Epic Games account.
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By : Keleops AG
