Epic Games slams Apple's new app fees under Japan's competition law

( December 19, 2025, 02:16 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Epic Games Chief Executive Tim Sweeney has criticized Apple’s new app-fee structure adopted in response to Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act. In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Sweeney said Apple had introduced “another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people of Japan,” instead of opening iOS to competing app stores. As a result, Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025 as previously planned. He called Apple’s 21 percent fee on third-party in-app payments “competition-crushing,” and said that its 15 percent charge on web-based purchases and 5 percent levy on revenue from apps distributed through third-party app stores were practices a US court previously found illegal.The posts follow:...

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Epic Games slams Apple's new app fees under Japan's competition law

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