Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps.
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The judge also referred the case to the US attorney to review it for possible criminal contempt proceedings.
Hey maybe not fuckepic just this once.
I recommend liberal use of the concept of critical support
Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can’t believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol
At least he never cosplayed team pleb tbh… Kinda doing his own “situation”
Rest of them is one of “us” hard working mavrevk or some shite
Still cunt tho
Epic’s most redeeming quality is their willingness to take bigger companies to court for their trash policies. Now if only we could get the FTC to do their jobs so Epic wouldn’t have to…
It’s always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.
Sweeney is also offering a “peace proposal” from Epic: “If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.”
Pretty sure this has a 0% chance of working.
Rogers also says that Apple “willfully” chose not to comply with her previous injunction from her original 2021 ruling
Why did it take them 4 years to enforce their own ruling?
Because the legal system is low moving even when major corporations aren’t trying to delay things and you can bet that Apple did everything they could to slow down enforcement. I’m surprised it only took 4 years.
What can they do?
Apple has $50B+ in literal cash. Epic’s entire revenue is under $7B/yr. Apple can afford to run Epic for decades on their cash reserves alone without impacting their bottom line.
That’s why it took 4 years. I’m surprised Apple didn’t bury them.
I don’t understand what that has to do with anything? It doesn’t cost either of them anything to enforce a ruling the court already made.
To be clear, I’m not defending anyone here…
Apple likely delayed it multiple times.
They delayed the enforcement of a ruling? I don’t think even they have that power.
