In a new legal filing on August 23, Epic Games said that Apple's retaliation against the company after it offered an alternate payment mechanism in its popular app is "intended" to cause harm to Epic and its licensees. "It is abundantly clear that Apple’s retaliatory steps are intended to harm Epic and its licensees, and harm them they will. Even if Apple, following a final judgment on the merits in this action, were required to make these tools available to Epic once again, it will be too late to save all the projects that were shelved while that support was unavailable," Epic said in the filing. It also said that Apple's actions threaten to jeopardise an entire ecosystem. The Verge first reported on this. Epic Games, is currently locked in a legal battle with Apple and Google. After Apple had removed Epic’s popular app Fortnite, Epic had filed a lawsuit against the company, calling its behaviour monopolistic. In retaliation, Apple threatened Epic with termination of all of its developer accounts — which includes Unreal Engine — and to cut Epic from iOS and Mac development tools by August 28. Apple had then submitted its legal response on Epic Games suit on August 21, claiming that Epic had asked for a "special deal" which would “fundamentally change the way in which Epic offers apps on Apple’s iOS platform.” Apple also submitted that Epic had created a false "emergency" by accepting direct payments, which are in violation of App Store guidelines. Read:…
