Microsoft has formally cited Apple’s App Retailer insurance policies because the roadblock stopping its Xbox cellular retailer launch promised for July 2024. In an amicus transient supporting Epic Video games filed this week, Microsoft alleged that Apple’s “anti-steering insurance policies” have “stymied” its cellular retailer ambitions regardless of a court docket injunction permitting builders to promote various fee strategies.
The transient challenges Apple’s try and overturn this important ruling, which enabled Fortnite’s App Retailer return with exterior fee hyperlinks. Microsoft argues that launching its retailer beneath risk of Apple doubtlessly successful a short lived keep creates important enterprise threat. The restrictions additionally influence Microsoft’s Xbox cellular app performance.
