苹果公司回应了Epic Games在两家公司持续争议中的最新一轮攻击。Epic曾表示，苹果威胁要取消其对iOS和Mac开发者工具的访问权，将其从苹果开发者程序中删除，除非它削减了一项违反规则的支付处理选项，而该选项正是它偷偷溜进Fortnite的。

苹果公司在一份即将发布的声明中说：“我们非常希望将公司作为苹果开发者计划的一部分，并将其应用程序留在商店里。”。“Epic为自己**的问题是，如果他们提交应用程序的更新，使其恢复到符合他们同意的、适用于所有开发人员的准则，那么这个问题就可以很容易地得到解决。”

以下是完整的声明：

The App Store is designed to be a safe and trusted place for users and a great business opportunity for all developers. Epic has been one of the most successful developers on the App Store, growing into a multibillion dollar business that reaches milli*** of iOS customers around the world. We very much want to keep the company as part of the Apple Developer Program and their apps on the Store. The problem Epic has created for itself is one that can easily be remedied if they submit an update of their app that reverts it to comply with the guidelines they agreed to and which apply to all developers. We won’t make an exception for Epic because we don’t think it’s right to put their business interests ahead of the guidelines that protect our customers.

Epic此次出人意料的Fortnite更新旨在绕过app store的指导原则，即要求开发者使用平台所有者的支付系统在应用程序内购买V-Buck等数字商品，从而使苹果和谷歌获得30%的降价。这些规则只适用于数字商品，这就是为什么你可以在Uber和Amazon处理支付的情况下，在Uber eats上购买一个汉堡或在Amazon应用程序中购买一本实体书，但你不能在Kindle电子书或Fortnite皮肤上做同样的事情，这样你的角色就可以打扮成一个汉堡。

苹果和谷歌将Fortnite从App Store和Play Store中移除，作为对Epic违规行为的回应，Epic准备起诉这两家公司的反竞争行为。Epic还提交了一份初步禁令，要求**阻止苹果将其从开发者程序中切断；否则，苹果称Epic必须在8月28日之前做出更改。