The relationship between Fortnite, or Epic, and Apple is, well, not exactly mutually benevolent. After a legal dispute over the business model of the iPhone app store, Apple took the popular battle royale out of the app store. Now the shooter is available again on Apple devices – but only thanks to a trick by Microsoft.
How you can now access the game you will learn in this article. What is behind the 2020 lawsuit and what Epic intended with it, we had a lawyer explain to us:
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So you can play Fortnite on the iPhone
Although Fortnite is still not available in the iPhone App Store, you can dank Microsofts Xbox Cloud Gaming now also play with Apple devices. All you need is two things: a Microsoft account and a device with an internet connection. In addition to iPhones, you can also use iPads, Android smartphones and tablets or a Windows PC.
You just have to Xbox-Website visit, register there with your Microsoft account and then you can go to Play with cloud gaming
click. It can be controlled with touch or a supported controller. By the way, Fortnite recently got a new mode without any building:
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Fortnite without building: Trailer shows what the new mode looks like
A provocation for Apple?
The fact that the competitive Fortnite is the first Free2Play title to land on Microsoft’s cloud gaming service may seem like a coincidence at first glance. In fact, both Microsoft and Epic are dissatisfied with the restrictive rules of Apple’s Appstore. They also block the publication of Game Pass as an application for mobile devices and require the service to be broken down into individual games.
Why gaming subscriptions are on the rise right nowDimi, Micha and Heiko discuss this in the podcast:
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So it’s no wonder that Microsoft is trying to circumvent the app store with cloud gaming and at the same time give Apple a dig. Since the group sees platform-independent cloud gaming as an important business basis for its future, it makes sense to work with Epic even without the dispute with Apple. Because Epic is also interested in marketing its games independently of platform limits.
