Summary
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has taken to Twitter to pressure Apple into approving the return of Fortnite to the iOS App Store.
- After a week of no action from Apple, Sweeney posted screenshots of App Store listings for Fortnite copycat games.
- He also directly tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook in a tweet asking if the company could “get the real Fortnite up, please”.
- Shortly afterwards, one of the copycat games was removed from the App Store, with another still available.
- Sweeney claimed that Epic needs to release a weekly Fortnite update this Friday and warned that the iOS version is now in jeopardy.
- Apple has yet to respond to the request for comment.
- Epic launched a new version of Fortnite on iOS that removed the direct payment option that sparked its previous App Store dismissal last year.
By Jay Peters
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