Whatever you do, don’t buy a ridiculous Fortnite iPhone for thousands of dollars

[Chris Smith]

• iPhones with the Fortnite game preinstalled have been put on sale for thousands of dollars on eBay since Apple removed it from the App Store.
• Epic Games has already lost a crucial battle against Apple in courts, with a judge siding with Apple on the company's right to punish Epic for the way it handled its contractual obligations.
• Epic will either have to update the app or risk losing its Apple developer account entirely.
• Whatever happens, you shouldn't buy a second-hand iPhone off of eBay for thousands of dollars just because it comes with the game preinstalled.

When Epic Games silently updated its Fortnite game on iPhone and Android in mid-August with its payments option, it knew exactly what it was doing. It was baiting Apple to take the kind of retaliatory measures it would have employed against other developers breaking the App Store rules. Apple did exactly that; it banned the game from the App Store and gave Epic two weeks to fix it or risk having its developer account banned from the App Store. Epic expected the initial ban and had a few moves ready. It sued Apple immediately after that and released an anti-Apple commercial to sway the public opinion. But we only learned a few days later that Apple had threatened the complete removal of all of Epic's developer accounts, including the Epic entity that manages the Unreal Engine resources. From the look of Epic's response to that, it seems that the Fortnite creator did not foresee that move. Apple beat Epic in court on Monday on the Fortnite front but lost the Unreal Engine side of the argument.

That said, whatever you do right now, do not spend thousands of dollars on a second-hand iPhone that has Fortnite installed. You may end up on the losing side of that deal come this Friday.

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