Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted December 12, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted December 12, 2025 Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up intended to open up iOS App Store payments. That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will “do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwide, I think.” This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , signed by a panel of three appellate court judges, affirmed that Apple’s initial attempts to charge a 27 percent fee to iOS developers using outside payment options “had a prohibitive effect, in violation of the injunction.” Similarly, Apple’s restrictions on how those outside links had to be designed were overly broad; the appeals court suggests that Apple can only ensure that internal and external payment options are presented in a similar fashion. The appeals court also agreed that Apple acted in “bad faith” by refusing to comply with the injunction, rejecting viable, compliant alternatives in internal discussions. And the appeals court was also not convinced by Apple’s process-focused arguments, saying the district court properly evaluated materials Apple argued were protected by attorney-client privilege. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/292693-steam-epic-celebrates-%E2%80%9Cthe-end-of-the-apple-tax%E2%80%9D-after-appeals-court-win-in-ios-payments-case/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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