App Store: Apple appeals verdict of lawsuit against Epic Games

The App Store will have to allow developers to bypass Apple’s 30% commission. Despite the brand’s multiple appeal requests, the American justice system maintains the verdict decreed during the lawsuit against Epic Games.

In early September, the lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games resulted in a verdict. After listening to both parties, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers felt that Apple must imperatively relax the rules of its App Store. Concretely, the Cupertino giant must allow app developers to redirect their users to other payment systems for in-app purchases.

This apparently innocuous change will allow developers to bypass the famous Apple tax of 30% which is deducted from all payments made via the App Store. De facto, the Californian firm will have to put aside several billion dollars in profits every year.

Apple loses a second call request, the App Store will have to change

Concerned about protecting its business model, Apple has filed an appeal to the courts from October. The company asked to postpone the deadline decreed at the time of the verdict. Justice calls for Apple to review the operation of the App Store from here next December 9. This first request was promptly rejected by the judge in charge of the case in early November. She felt that the “Apple’s motion is based on a selective reading of the findings of this court and ignores all the findings that supported the injunction”.

Despite this initial refusal, Apple’s lawyers filed a second appeal. This time, the tech giant has taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a federal court. “Given the date of entry into force of the injunction on December 9, Apple requests the immediate registration of an administrative stay that would expire 30 days after the decision of the Court”, pleaded the lawyers of the group.

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In case of refusal, Apple says it will have to update the App Store urgently, which could cause problems for users. “The App Store will have to be reconfigured – to the detriment of consumers, developers and Apple itself”, warns the American group. Despite Apple’s warnings, the court has rejected the request for suspension. Justice believes that Apple has plenty of time to implement the required changes before the deadline.