Epic plans to contest Apple’s ‘bad-faith’ compliance with court ruling over App Store

Epic plans to contest Apple’s ‘bad-faith’ compliance with court ruling over App Store

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https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/17/epic-plans-to-contest-apples-bad-faith-compliance-with-court-ruling-over-app-store/

Fortnite maker Epic Games is not happy about how Apple intends to comply with a district court’s injunction that permitted app developers to direct users to their own websites and payment platforms — a court order that came into effect following the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the Apple antitrust case, leaving the current ruling to stand. Though Apple had largely won the case, as the court decided it was not a monopolist, a judge ruled that app makers should be able to steer their customers to the web from links or buttons inside their apps, something that forced Apple to change its App Store rules.

But Apple’s compliance doesn’t give app makers the victory they had hoped, as the tech giant aims to still charge commissions on purchases made outside of apps — a decision Epic aims to challenge in court.