Court accidentally allows calls in the Epic vs. Apple process - children scream: "Free Fortnite"

At 3.May officially began the court trial between Epic and Apple.The process takes place with people on site, is transferred to the public and the press in a conference.Some children managed to get voice rights in the conference and disrupted the negotiation with interjections such as “Free Fortnite”.

What exactly is going on?Epic and Apple have been in a legal dispute since August 2020.It was kicked off because Epic simply sold V-Bucks in Fortnite and thus dealt with Apple's sales participation in the App Store.Then Fortnite flew out of the store, which led to a lawsuit and counterclaim.

At 3.May now officially started the court trial between the two parties.During the trial of the judges and witnesses, including Tim Sweeney, the head of Epic, and Tim Cook, CEO from Apple are on site.

However, the press, the public and parts of the lawyers' teams could be switched from the outside.And that's exactly where problems and the appearance of the Fortnite fans occurred.

What did the children do?As the Verge website reports, it was possible for some people in the first minutes of the process to speak in public circuit and thus disturb the negotiation (via the verge).

In particular, children and young people are said to have called in between such as “Free Fortnite” or “Fortnite brings back to mobile, please your judge”.Others are said to have played music by Travis Scott or advertised their YouTube channel.

The call was more reminiscent of a chaotic discord conversation than a serious negotiation.A total of over 200 people took part in the transfer.

The audio version of this can also be heard on YouTube afterwards.The interjections can be heard especially around minute 6:40:

How long did the disorders go?According to The Verge, the negotiation should start at 5:15 p.m..Only at 5:30 p.m., however, was the situation under control, so that Tim Sweeney could start with his statements.

Apple sees in the legal dispute PR campaign, Epic wants equal rights for everyone

What is behind the legal dispute?If you sell a game or currencies in the game in the App Store, you should have to hand in 30 % of your turnover to Apple.However, Epic and their boss Tim Sweeney find the sentence too high and tried to avoid this levy.With some episodes:

Apple sees a PR strategy for a weakening Fortnite in the entire Epic campaign.

Why does Epic do that at all?Tim Sweeney is the boss of Epic and at the same time has a large part in the company.In his eyes, he struggles with Epic for the law of indie developers on their income and against monopolists.

In an interview, SWEENEY said that the fight with Apple cost a lot and hardly any other company could afford this.But he is still optimistic that Epic can change the gaming industry.

Epic has also created with Steam, in which they keep trying to publish new games exclusively with themselves and to force Steam to reduce the shares that are taking from developers.However, the exclusive should really go into money:

How did the first day go?On the first day, Tim Sweeney and Apple's lawyers in particular spoke.It was about whether the 30 % of Apple are really justified, how much Epic actually earns with Fortnite and what the Epic Store is about.

Here, above all, many numbers were placed in the room, such as the $ 9.1 billion, which Fortnite is said to have implemented in 2018 and 2019.That is enough to buy Star Wars twice.

How does the process continue?According to PCGamer, the process should be all about the fact that all arguments of the past few months are put together (via PCGamer).In addition to the bosses of Epic and Apple, Lori Wright, Vice President of the Xbox Business Development, and other people outside the two companies should also make their statements.

It is believed that the process will last about 2 weeks.After that, US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers should write a decision.