Posted Aug 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM UTC

Epic calls Apple’s new EU rates “junk fees.”

The company responded to Apple’s new App Store policies in a post on X, claiming the updated fees “do nothing to open up the mobile app ecosystem to competition” and “deliberately violate” the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

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