{"slug": "epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk", "title": "Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk'", "summary": "Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney dismissed Apple's revised EU App Store fee structure as 'junk', criticizing the new 0.50 euro Core Technology Fee for apps distributed outside the App Store. Apple's changes, announced in response to the Digital Markets Act, also include a 10% commission for App Store sales and a 3% payment processing fee, but Sweeney argues the fees still disadvantage developers and fail to comply with the regulation.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\n#### Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown\n\nAnd Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance\n\nNext-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself\n\nHow to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine\n\n-\nAI and ml\n\n#### Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales\n\nAI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words\n\n'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan\n\n-\n#### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it\n\nNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/08/19/epic-games-dismisses-apples-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk/5289794", "published_at": "2026-08-19 16:21:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 21:14:55.358945+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Epic Games", "Tim Sweeney", "Apple", "European Union"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/epic-games-dismisses-apple-s-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk.jsonld"}}