In a high-stakes lawsuit the could have big implication for apps and mobile gaming, Epic Games has at times seemed to help make Apple's case as much as its own.
From climate change to voting rights, Patagonia has been willing to risk backlash by taking positions on contentious social issues. It’s a risk that has paid off.Apple contends the commissions are a reasonable toll paid by a minority of the 1.8 million apps in its store to help cover the more than $100 billion it has invested in mobile software. The Cupertino, Calif., company also says its ironclad control over apps allowed on its mobile devices helps protect its customers’ security and privacy.
Sweeney also acknowledged Apple made changes to iPhone’s software to help make it possible for “Fortnite” players to compete against one another while one was on a phone and the other was on a video game console. The expansion of so-called “cross-platform” play helped propel “Fortnite’s” growth to more than 400 million users.
Apple’s store, by contrast, quickly became highly profitable shortly after it opened with just 500 apps in 2008 — a year after the debut of the first iPhone. Epic has repeatedly pointed to evidence that Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs initially didn’t expect the App Store to be a profit center, but then apparently changed his mind after it accumulated $2.1 billion in billings during 2010, according to an Apple slide presentation.
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