He took advantage of a web question-and-answer session to express his thoughts. Mark Zuckerberg has a strong point of view in the clash between Epic Games and Apple. For him, Apple, through the App Store, “blocks innovation, blocks competition” and takes advantage of its monopoly situation to make developers pay.
Microsoft also took up the cause of Fortnite and Epic Games
Regarding the clash between the two companies that marked the entire month of August, the founder of Facebook considers Apple's decision to block Epic Games' Unreal Engine problematic, calling this decision "an extremely aggressive ".
There is a certain form of irony in seeing Mark Zuckerberg denounce Apple's anti-competitive behavior, when we know that he wasitself summoned by the American Congressa month ago with Tim Cook. Their two firms are accused of taking advantage of their dominant positions and harming smaller companies.
Mark Zuckerberg is far from being the first to react to the conflict between Fortnite and the App Store. Recently,Microsoft has shown unwavering supportat Epic Games. There is no doubt that many twists and turns will still punctuate this confrontation which should animate the months to come and last at leastuntil 2021.
