These are the heated emails that killed ‘Fortnite’ on iOS

• Apple today filed its response to Epic Games' lawsuit over the removal of Fortnite from the App Store.
• The response includes exhibits that show that Apple executives and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney engaged in tense email exchanges in the weeks leading up to the Fortnite saga.

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Apple today responded to Epic Games' lawsuit which it initially levied after Apple kicked the popular game Fortnite off the App Store. As a quick refresher, Epic Games purposefully ran afoul of Apple's App Store rules when it sought to avoid the 30% commission Apple charges on all in-game microtransactions.

While Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has tried to position the battle against Apple as a moral crusade meant to provide users with more choice, it's hard to see this as anything other than a fundamental dispute over money. It's no secret that Epic Games rakes in millions via the App Store and the company would understandably like to keep as much of that haul for itself as possible.

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