Apple Keeps Fortnite in App Store Limbo

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Thursday that Apple has "neither accepted nor rejected" Fortnite's second App Store submission, potentially delaying the game's major update planned for Friday.

Epic initially submitted Fortnite on May 9 following Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' order for Apple to comply with the original 2021 injunction. After five days without response, Epic withdrew and resubmitted to accommodate the upcoming update. While Apple's guidelines state 90% of submissions are reviewed within 24 hours, this silence is unprecedented.

The legal context remains complex -- the judge's original ruling didn't require Apple to reinstate Fortnite, as she determined Epic had willingly violated agreed-upon rules. Meanwhile, Sweeney is actively pointing out on X that Fortnite knock-offs are flooding the App Store.

Schrodinger's App

[Powercntrl]

Apple is just conducting an experiment. The app is both approved and denied until you observe it.

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[awwshit]

Shhh... We are still struggling with AI, we are not ready for the Quantum iPhone.

Meanwhile

[Bahbus]

Meanwhile, Sweeney is actively pointing out on X that Fortnite knock-offs are flooding the App Store.

And they are all equally as trash as Fortnite is. No one cares Tim.

I wouldn't expect anything else from $Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Malicious compliance. Uhmm ... allegedly. They can say that they are not blocking it, but that it's merely in "the queue". It doesn't matter if it's "unprecedented". 3x WTC buildings collapsing due to "office fires" was also unprecedented, yet no one should ever question it.

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[serviscope_minor]

3x WTC buildings collapsing due to "office fires" was also unprecedented, yet no one should ever question it.

You know you've gone far down the rabbit hole when a normie can't even tell specifically what conspiracy theory you are trying to plug. I'm just gonna go with XKCD's "jet fuel can't melt steel beams but what about the stuff used for chemtrails".

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[Anonymous Coward]

Not a theory. A fact. Never before in history has a skyscraper ever collapsed at freefall speed due to an office fire. Yet, 3 buildings all did on the same day. Amazing. One of them, WTC7, was a block away and wasn't even hit by a plane. It's unprecedented (therefore no need to question it, trust us bro). Similarly Apple is also saying the hold up is unprecedented, therefore trust us bro, don't question it.

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[serviscope_minor]

Out of interest do you have opinions on any of the following topics:

* Moon Landings

* Nefarious activities at a pizzeria

* Why we don't have free energy yet

* Absorption spectra of CO2

* The purpose of secretive military bases in the desert

* Curvature of the Earth

Contempt of Court

[Valgrus Thunderaxe]

If I did this, I'd be in jail.

It's the new model in the US

[hdyoung]

One day, say yes. The next day, say no. The day after, declare war and then make kissy faces 24 hours later. After that, triple your prices, then cut them right back. The week after, claim space aliens are controlling us through vaccines. Right after that, explain to the world that you're a genius. Meanwhile, make sure all your good employees quit, claim "savings" and blame any problems on the last boss.

Really, really annoying, ain't it? Can't imagine where they learned this behavior....

Re:It's the new model in the US

[innocent_white_lamb]

It's easy to avoid starting a war.

All you need to do is surrender.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Other than invading Libya.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Obama didn't start any wars either and, in fact, ended the Iraq war.

What are you on, as well? Obama bombed no less than 7 countries in the Middle East.

Re:It's the new model in the US

[MachineShedFred]

So because he's managed to not fuck that up (yet), he's incapable of fucking anything and everything else up?

Easily observed reality rejects that.

Re:It's the new model in the US

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump is the only president in my lifetime that hasn't started any foreign wars (I was born in the Carter admin.). As a matter of fact, it seems he's trying to de-escalate in the case of Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas.

What are you on? Trump has just recently bombed Yemen. He also supplied Israel and Ukraine to weapons that prolong the killing - that's hardly de-escalation.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Trump is the only president in my lifetime that hasn't started any foreign wars

Quit getting your talking points from Fox News. Their logic and talking points are asinine.

Fox trying to rationalize the "Qatar is giving the plane to the Pentagon, which will give it to the Trump presidential library, and of course he might want to fly it around a little" shtick is so obviously transparent.

Why didn't Qatar just buy a shitload of Trump's crypto coins like the other sycophants?

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[The-Ixian]

And yet, the emergency powers that he is relying on state that we are at war with several different entities.

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[karmawarrior]

Wars are declared by Congress, no Presidents have "started any wars". If you mean he hasn't started intervening in conflicts where we weren't already at war, he most recently bombed Yemen.

Trump "hasn't started any wars" is up there with "Musk believes in free speech" as one of those talking points that gets repeated in certain circles over and over and over again to make themselves feel smug about supporting horrible people, when in fact even that talking point isn't remotely true. And this is before consid

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[thegarbz]

The week after, claim space aliens are controlling us through vaccines. Right after that, explain to the world that you're a genius.

Wait, what happened to the aliens in between? Did the Jews shoot them with their space laser?

"this silence is unprecedented"

[unami]

Nah, it's not, it's the typical Apple-fuckery a lot of developers tell tales about. It's like their customer service - if they don't want to, they hang you out to dry.

This is just petty

[CEC-P]

Absolutely butthurt and transparent as hell what they're doing. If they really wanted to sink the company, roll out and OS-wide "AI assistant" that aims for you. That'd be the end of the game.

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[mjwx]

Absolutely butthurt and transparent as hell what they're doing. If they really wanted to sink the company, roll out and OS-wide "AI assistant" that aims for you. That'd be the end of the game.

Did anyone expect anything except pettiness and malicious compliance from Apple?

They know the only way they can keep people is to make moving away from Apple services and hardware as difficult and painful as possible.