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There's no mention of Apple here, but I suspect the timing of this is directly related to Apple threatening to cut off Epic's SDK access due to the fight over app purchase fees. This was almost certainly in the works already, but now they need to accelerate it.

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In my experience it is exceedingly difficult to meaningfully accelerate the timelines on publishing an S-1. There are too many lawyers, financial audits, investor roadshow schedules, et cetera. This is likely pure coincidence.

100%. It's typically a multi-month endeavor that has been planned on a multi-year time horizon.

I was confused and mixed up a story about Apple blocking Unreal Engine, thinking that Epic owned Unity. I figured they had been playing the long game, preparing a Unity IPO to launch in case Apple tried to block it.

Thats what I assumed as well, and anecdotally I personally researched if Unity was publicly traded after the Epic v. Apple news so I could buy some shares.

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