Apple Keeps Fortnite in App Store Limbo
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/05/15/2327216/apple-keeps-fortnite-in-app-store-limbo
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Epic initially submitted Fortnite on May 9 following Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' [2]order for Apple to comply with the original 2021 injunction . After five days without response, Epic withdrew and resubmitted to accommodate the upcoming update. While Apple's guidelines state 90% of submissions are reviewed within 24 hours, this silence is unprecedented.
The legal context remains complex -- the judge's original ruling didn't require Apple to reinstate Fortnite, as she determined Epic had willingly violated agreed-upon rules. Meanwhile, Sweeney is actively pointing out on X that Fortnite knock-offs are flooding the App Store.
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/15/tim-sweeney-says-fortnite-still-in-limbo/
[2] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/055227/apple-must-halt-non-app-store-sales-commissions-judge-says
Meanwhile (Score:2)
> Meanwhile, Sweeney is actively pointing out on X that Fortnite knock-offs are flooding the App Store.
And they are all equally as trash as Fortnite is. No one cares Tim.
I wouldn't expect anything else from $Apple (Score:1, Insightful)
Malicious compliance. Uhmm ... allegedly. They can say that they are not blocking it, but that it's merely in "the queue". It doesn't matter if it's "unprecedented". 3x WTC buildings collapsing due to "office fires" was also unprecedented, yet no one should ever question it.
Contempt of Court (Score:1)
If I did this, I'd be in jail.
It's the new model in the US (Score:4, Insightful)
One day, say yes. The next day, say no. The day after, declare war and then make kissy faces 24 hours later. After that, triple your prices, then cut them right back. The week after, claim space aliens are controlling us through vaccines. Right after that, explain to the world that you're a genius. Meanwhile, make sure all your good employees quit, claim "savings" and blame any problems on the last boss.
Really, really annoying, ain't it? Can't imagine where they learned this behavior....
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It's easy to avoid starting a war.
All you need to do is surrender.
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Other than invading Libya.
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> Obama didn't start any wars either and, in fact, ended the Iraq war.
What are you on, as well? Obama bombed no less than 7 countries in the Middle East.
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So because he's managed to not fuck that up (yet), he's incapable of fucking anything and everything else up?
Easily observed reality rejects that.
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> Trump is the only president in my lifetime that hasn't started any foreign wars (I was born in the Carter admin.). As a matter of fact, it seems he's trying to de-escalate in the case of Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas.
What are you on? Trump has just recently bombed Yemen. He also supplied Israel and Ukraine to weapons that prolong the killing - that's hardly de-escalation.
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> Trump is the only president in my lifetime that hasn't started any foreign wars
Quit getting your talking points from Fox News. Their logic and talking points are asinine.
Fox trying to rationalize the "Qatar is giving the plane to the Pentagon, which will give it to the Trump presidential library, and of course he might want to fly it around a little" shtick is so obviously transparent.
Why didn't Qatar just buy a shitload of Trump's crypto coins like the other sycophants?
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> The week after, claim space aliens are controlling us through vaccines. Right after that, explain to the world that you're a genius.
Wait, what happened to the aliens in between? Did the Jews shoot them with their space laser?
Schrodinger's App (Score:4, Funny)
Apple is just conducting an experiment. The app is both approved and denied until you observe it.
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Shhh... We are still struggling with AI, we are not ready for the Quantum iPhone.