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		</div><p>Apple has dropped the hugely popular Fortnite game from its App Store after the game’s developer introduced a direct payment plan that bypasses Apple’s platform.<br />
Apple takes a 30 per cent cut from in-app revenue purchases, which has long been a sore spot with developers.</p>
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<p>Fortnite is free, but users can pay for in-game additional items like weapons and skins.<br />
Its developer, Epic Games, said in a blog post that it was introducing Epic Direct payments, a direct payment plan for Apple’s iOS and Google Play.</p>
<p>Epic said the system is the same payment system it already uses to process payments on PC and Mac computers and Android phones. Apple said the service violated its guidelines.</p>
<p>“Epic enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or approved by Apple, and they did so with the express intent of violating the App Store guidelines regarding in-app payments that apply to every developer who sells digital goods or services,” Apple said in a statement.</p>
<p>Apple added that Epic has had apps on the App Store for a decade and benefited from its tools, testing and distribution. It said it was working with Epic to resolve the violations and return Fortnite to the app store.</p>
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<p>Epic Games did not immediately return a request for comment. Epic’s Fortnite Twitter account said the company would debut a new short film called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, a seeming parody of Apple’s iconic 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh computer.</p>
<p>It has also filed a complaint against Apple in the US District Court in Northern California for dropping Fortnite.</p>
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