https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/08/13/apple-vs-epic-games-is-a-bigger-conflict-than-any-console-war/

Everyone expected the PlayStation 5 vs. the Xbox Series X to be the big video game battle of 2020, but it looks like that console war is taking a backseat to a bigger conflict. Epic Games, the makers of “Fortnite,” has filed an antitrust suit against Apple and begun a series of salvos that got the popular battle royale game kicked off the App Store.

It began with Epic Games bypassing Apple’s payment service by allowing direct payments to the Cary, North Carolina,-based, company. The way the App Store works is that Apple takes a 30 percent cut from every sale on the platform. By skirting that with its “mega drop” discount, Epic violated Apple’s terms of service.