Apple hit with class-action lawsuit for violating App Store injunction

On Monday, Apple filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, contesting last week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers that bars the company from imposing fees on developers who include purchase links outside the App Store. The company was also hit with a class-action lawsuit over violating that App Store ruling.
Mike Scarcella for Reuters:
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Apple should return hundreds of millions of dollars to developers who claim the iPhone maker defied a U.S. judge’s order governing its lucrative App Store, causing them to pay inflated commissions for more than a year, a new lawsuit said.
App developer Pure Sweat Basketball filed the proposed class action on Friday in the Oakland, California, federal court, after a judge ruled last week that Apple defied her order in a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games.
The lawsuit estimated that Apple’s conduct cost them “hundreds of millions or even billions” of dollars in damages. “Apple should be made to disgorge its wrongful profit, and developers are entitled to be made whole,” the complaint said.
In a statement, Steve Berman, a lead attorney for Pure Sweat, said they were focused on “obtaining justice” against Apple.

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MacDailyNews Take: Again, this should be overturned on appeal once it reaches a judge with a functioning brain.
Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to allow developers to advertise lower prices elsewhere within Apple’s App Store for free. It is Apple’s App Store. The company owns it, not Epic Games or some ditzy U.S. District Judge. Advertising within Apple’s App Store has value, a fee for which its owner has every right to charge, regardless of whatever the blank-eyed Gonzalez Rogers, bless her heart, expected.
In communist China, the CCP can set prices for Chinese companies. You’re in the wrong country, Yvonne.
Apple should appeal this rolling travesty all the way to the United States Supreme Court, if need be.
Rodgers says that Apple will no longer be allowed to prohibit developers from providing links or other communications that direct users away from Apple in-app purchasing.
You know, because Best Buy and Target are forced by a judge’s injunction to place signs next to each product that advertise lower prices for the same items at Walmart.
Oh, wait, they aren’t forced to do that by some ditzy judge. Because it’s ludicrous, illogical, and just plan wrong.
Apple should appeal Roger’s injunction and/or if developers like Epic Games want to advertise lower prices using Apple’s App Store, Apple should simply charge an in-store advertising fee. We suggest it be 15% for developers making under $1 million per year and 30% for those making $1 million or more annually.