Apple asks U.S. judge to throw App Store injunction from Epic Games lawsuit

Apple is seeking to overturn or modify a court ruling that forced it to allow third-party in-app payments and direct communication between developers and their customers. The company argues that recent legal developments undermine the validity of this court order, which was obtained by Epic Games in a lawsuit against Apple.
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Apple made its request on Monday in a court filing to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, where the iPhone maker and Epic have faced off for years over Apple’s App Store practices.
Epic sued Apple in 2020, accusing it of violating antitrust law by controlling the market for iPhone apps and overcharging developers through a 30% commission on app transactions. Apple defeated most of the case, but Rogers in a 2021 ruling said Apple must give developers more power to steer app users to payment options outside of Apple’s ecosystem.
In Monday’s filing, Apple said new decisions by California state courts and the U.S. Supreme Court in two unrelated cases bolster the company’s legal arguments against the injunction.
Citing the new rulings, Apple said its practices were not unfair and that any injunction should be limited to benefiting only Epic, and not other developers.

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MacDailyNews Take: Throw it out, throw it out, throw it out!
This is akin to a judge forcing Best Buy and Target to place signs next to each product that advertise lower prices for the same items at Walmart…
If developers like Epic Games want to advertise lower prices [to be had elsewhere via] Apple’s App Store, Apple should simply begin charging an “In-Store Advertising” fee, because that’s exactly what it would be. – MacDailyNews, July 27, 2023

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