Apple's new CEO gets a message from the man who sued it for six years
Tim Sweeney has a message for Apple's new chief executive. Hours after John Ternus took over from Tim Cook on September 1, the Epic Games founder posted that Apple is entering a new age, urging it to grow by building better hardware and software rather than extracting more from developers. Epic has been fighting Apple in court since 2020, and the battle is not over.
Apple's new CEO John Ternus received a message from Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games, on the day he assumed his role as CEO on September 1. Sweeney accused Apple of entering a new era and that previous company eras were perceived differently by users, developers, and shareholders. While Ternus is a hardware engineer who contributed to Apple's hardware and other device releases, Sweeney sees Apple as a company that should focus on growing the pie instead of taking a larger share.
In a lengthy post, Sweeney expressed his belief in a different Apple era, one that brings computing more meaningfully to everyone's lives and creates more value from its own efforts. The Epic vs Apple lawsuit began in 2020 when Sweeney added a direct payment option to Fortnite, leading Apple to ban the game from its app stores. The legal costs in the Apple case reportedly surpassed $100 million, with Fortnite earning around $300 million from iOS in its first two years.
Sweeney estimates that the total damage to Epic amounts to over a billion dollars. Apple has since expressed a willingness to enter settlement talks, but Epic is not in a hurry to accept any proposal from the company.
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