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- 0:00This guy took on Apple, lost most of the
- 0:02case, and still won. Meet Tim Sweeney,
- 0:04founder of Epic Games. Started coding in
- 0:06his parents' house in Maryland. Sold his
- 0:08first game by mail in 1991, ZZT, shipped
- 0:11from his bedroom. Built the Unreal
- 0:13Engine, the software behind thousands of
- 0:15the games you've played. Then Fortnite,
- 0:17250 million players by 2019. On the
- 0:20iPhone, Apple kept 30% of every dollar.
- 0:23August 2020, [music]
- 0:24Sweeney added his own payment button
- 0:26inside Fortnite. Apple pulled the game
- 0:27the same day. He sued. The trial ran
- 0:30[music] 3 weeks. He lost nine of 10
- 0:32claims, but the 10th said Apple could no
- 0:34longer stop developers from pointing
- 0:35players [music] to cheaper prices
- 0:37elsewhere. Apple tried a 27% fee
- 0:39instead. April 2025, [music]
- 0:41the judge found Apple in contempt. No
- 0:43fee, no delay. May 2025, Fortnite came
- 0:46back to the iPhone after [music] 5
- 0:48years. He still owns more than half of
- 0:50Epic. Disney put in a billion and a
- 0:52half, and every app on your phone can
- 0:53now tell you [music] where it's cheaper,
- 0:55because one game developer refused to
- 0:57settle. Follow Vibe [music] Economies
- 0:59for more.
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