{"id":40383,"date":"2021-09-23T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40383"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:42:51","slug":"an-epic-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40383","title":{"rendered":"AN &#8216;EPIC&#8217; BAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200bFortnite will not be returning to the Apple App Store until all appeals and legal rulings related to the high-profile case between the tech giant and game developer Epic Games are resolved, according to a company executive.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ntfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqykfkkr_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a=&amp;b=42639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ntfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqykfkkr_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42639&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632521014204000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_Pv2AJHTnN4Dc0zZTCTYgrjMNUA\">published a series of tweets<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday documenting correspondence between Epic and Apple. In one letter from Apple\u2019s attorneys, Apple denied Epic\u2019s request to reinstate the Fortnite developer program account, citing breach of contract and breach of trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate last night, Apple informed Epic that Fortnite will be blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem until the exhaustion of all court appeals, which could be as long as a 5-year process,\u201d Sweeney wrote on Twitter Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200bFortnite will not be returning to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40384,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40383\/revisions\/40384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}