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  Behind the Apple Versus Fortnite App Store Battle! 1. What’s the case about? In August, Epic’s billionaire founder , Tim Sweeney, announced that he would no longer abide by Apple’s rule that all purchases of apps and items within apps designed for its iOS-based devices go through Apple’s payment system. After he activated Epic’s own payment system, Apple kicked Fortnite out of its app store. It also threatened to make it hard for developers using Epic’s tools to build games. In response, Epic sued in federal court in the Northern District of California; it also sued Google over the same issue. Apple soon counter-sued. 2. What was Epic unhappy about? That Apple and Google, the part of Alphabet Inc. that makes the Android mobile-phone operating system, charge fees of up to 30% to developers using their app stores. Consumers spent $50 billion worldwide on the App Store and Google Play in the first half of 2020, according to Sensor Tower estimates. That generated billions of dollars in