Epic Games is annoyed UK regulator isn’t working harder to enable third-party app stores
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Epic Games has complained that the UK competition regulator has decided against forcing Apple to allow alternatives to the App Store to exist in the country, claiming that it may prevent ‘Fortnite’ for iOS from being re-released there.
A still from a video at the start of the Apple-Epic lawsuit battle – Image Credit: Epic Games
On July 23, the UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) explained that the government wanted to designate Apple and Google as having a strategic market status, allowing for new regulations to apply to them. While the CMA has requested opinions and input on the proposal, Epic Games has signaled that it is against the designation.
In a statement released later the same day, Epic Games insists the CMA’s roadmap “doesn’t open the mobile app ecosystem to competition in the UK.” To a level that it believes bringing Fortnite back to iOS in the UK is now “uncertain.”
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