Epic Games wins support from ‘Fortnite’ gamers, firms on Apple standoff

Analysts believe users of Apple devices spend the most on gaming through their purchases on the App Store, which is the largest component of the company’s services segment revenue of US$46.3bil (RM194.15bil) per year. — Reuters

Fortnite creator Epic Games found support from its legions of gamers, Tinder-owner Match Group and Spotify for suing Apple and Google after the tech giants dropped the popular video game from their app stores for violating payment guidelines.

Epic Games started a social media campaign against the iPhone maker by releasing a parody of Apple’s iconic ‘1984’ commercial in its video game, and soon the hashtag ‘#FreeFortnite’ was trending on Twitter.