Apple, Epic Unveil Lines of Attack in App Store Trial

  • Epic Games made more than $700 million from Fortnite on iOS
  • Apple argues Epic is free to distribute outside the App Store
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Apple Inc. plans to argue at a trial that consumers and developers will suffer if Epic Games Inc. succeeds in upending how the iPhone maker’s app marketplace is run. The games maker will counter that Apple’s “anti-competitive” conduct allows it to profit at their expense.

In the high-stakes antitrust fight over how much Apple’s App Store charges developers, both companies presented road maps of their cases to a California federal judge on Thursday. Their filings comes ahead of a May 3 trial before the judge with no jury.