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The prolonged legal battle between Epic Games and Apple has finally and unequivocally come to an end after the US Supreme Court dismissed both parties’ respective motions to appeal. The district court’s ruling on Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple is now final and will be enforced to the full extent of the law. For those who haven’t been following the [...]
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The legal battle between Apple and Epic Games is moving up to the Supreme Court of the United States with Apple requesting a stay of a lower court injunction while it prepares to appeal a 2021 ruling regarding its "anti-steering" practices. The ruling mandated that Apple allow developers on the App Store to use non-Apple payment options. The legal feud [...]
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Apple and Epic Games have been battling it out in court for three long years now, but the latest ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seems to have landed a win for Apple. In case you missed the previous rounds, here's a quick rundown: Epic Games updated Fortnite to allow players to make purchases outside of the App [...]
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The Epic Games vs. Apple legal feud is far from over with both companies planning to appeal the presiding judge’s verdict on their big anti-monopoly lawsuit. Judge Gonzales-Rogers neither ruled in favor of both Epic and Apple on their respective lawsuits, which needless to say, didn’t sit well with both companies. The presiding judge found Apple to be in violation [...]
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After over a year of motions, counter-claims, and posturing, the Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit has finally come to an end as Judge Yvonne Gonzales-Rogers rules in favor of Apple in 9 counts out of 10, but essentially gave Epic Games and other developers what they’ve been fighting for all along – the ability to put alternative payment methods [...]
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Apple has made several concessions to its App Store payment policies in order to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by small US-based developers back in 2019. Note that this is a different lawsuit than the one filed by Epic Games last year but is presided over by the same judge, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers. One of these [...]
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While we’re still waiting on Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers’ verdict on the Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit in the US, Epic is now preparing to wage war on the tech giant once again in Australian courts. Epic Games filed a similar antitrust lawsuit against Apple in Australia in November 2020 but was temporarily put on hold after the presiding [...]
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We have now entered the home stretch of the historic Epic Games vs. Apple trial. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stand to answer questions about the App Store’s policies, curation, and profits, reported Gamasutra. Cook was also asked to comment on the testimony of Epic’s expert witness who calculated that the App Store saw a 78% profit [...]
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The Epic Games vs Apple trial is well underway and the historic showdown has resulted in some pretty big revelations. Most of these revelations were supposed to be confidential, including the fact that Sony is charging developers for cross-platform play on PlayStation, but by the magic of the internet it’s now common knowledge. Of course, most of us already knew [...]
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The beginning of the end of the Epic Games vs Apple lawsuit is finally close at hand as the antitrust trial officially began yesterday with the opening arguments from both of the companies. According to VentureBeat, Epic’s opening statement accused Apple of monopolizing the mobile games and apps market and “trapping” customers inside a walled garden called the App Store. [...]
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