A US judge on Friday issued a ruling in Fortnite creator Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple’s App Store, striking down some of Apple’s restrictions on how developers can collect payments in apps.
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Apple will loosen rules on its App Store that have banned companies like Netflix from providing customers a link to create a paid account to bypass Apple’s in-app purchase commissions.
Apple settled a wide-ranging class action lawsuit with US app makers on Thursday, announcing changes to the App Store such as giving developers more flexibility to advertise outside payment methods.
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US federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers held unconventional closing arguments on Monday in the antitrust trial between Epic Games and Apple.
Should Apple’s defences fail to persuade the judge, a ruling in Epic Games’ favour would loosen Apple’s grip on its store and could upend the way millions of developers distribute apps.
Apple’s App Store has left users and developers “trapped” in an anticompetitive marketplace, Epic Games attorneys said at the start of an antitrust trial in the US.
Epic Games faces an uphill legal battle against Apple in an antitrust trial starting this week, and a defeat for the maker of Fortnite could make it harder for regulators to pursue a similar case.
Tim Cook has been with Apple for 23 years and served as its CEO for nearly a decade, but he used a new podcast appearance to suggest that some kind of an eventual change may be on the horizon.