How did Fortnite get back on iOS?
People at Epic Games must be celebrating. Thanks to a slate of new legislation in the EU, Fortnite, which has been absent from mobile app stores since 2020, is finally making its way back natively to iOS. It’s not going to be stand-alone on the App Store, but it’ll be available through an Epic Games Store app that’ll launch soon.
“shoutout DMA — an important new law in the EU making this possible,” a post on X (formerly Twitter) from the official Fortnite account read. “@Apple, the world is watching.”
If you’re in the U.S. — or just not up on international legislative policies in general, which is fair — you might not have heard of the DMA, aka the Digital Markets Act. In the EU, though, it has the potential to finally begin the process of breaking up the stranglehold certain companies have on the market. The DMA established a governing body that aims to put new guidelines into place that would regulate how much control giant companies — known as “gatekeepers” — have on their respective markets. Some of the conglomerates singled out by the EU include Microsoft, TikTok owner ByteDance, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and — most importantly for our purposes — Apple. All of these companies offer a “core platform service,” such as a social media platform, web browser, or an “online intermediation service” like an app store, and so are subject to different guidelines, albeit only in the EU.
Remember Fortnite on iOS?
How bout we bring that back.
Later this year Fortnite will return in Europe on iOS through the <a href=«https://twitter.com/EpicGames?ref_src=» https:>@EpicGames
Store.
(shoutout DMA — an important new law in the EU making this possible). <a href=«https://twitter.com/Apple?ref_src=» https:>@Apple, the world is watching. pic.twitter.com/VdHWTe8i1c
The DMA outlines a lot of things these gatekeepers will have to do to comply, but relevant to getting Fortnite back on iOS are the rules that Apple and Google will have to allow third-party app stores on their
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