- Apple makes an appeal to the decision of the App Store
- It comes only a few days after modifying certain basic rules of the App Store
- Apple did not agree and now it acts
Apple appealed on Monday to the decision of the judge of the American district court who forced him to stop invoicing the developers of commission costs.
Only a few days after judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers accused Apple of lying and not complying with a previous injunction, the technology giant has appealed which could prevent the application of this new decision, that which required, among other things, the company ceasing to charge a 27% commission on integrated purchases outside the Apple App Store transaction system. The costs applied to the applications that were downloaded via the Apple App Store, but which then indicated users to integrated purchases which could be made through third -party transactions.
Apple’s insistence was also insistent that its own transaction system is offered in parallel with these third -party options.
The decision that Apple is attractive painted an image not too flattering the way Apple responded to the original injunction, saying: “o Hide the truth, vice-president of finance, Alex Roman, has pure and simplely under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had recommended that Apple complies with the injunction, but Tim Cook Ignored Schiller and rather authorized the financial director Luca Maestri and his financial team to convince him of the contrary. “”
What is the next step
Apple’s call, which was brought to our attention by the rod, no longer offers details on how Apple plans to fight this last decision. At the time, Apple would have “strongly disagreed” with the decision, but Apple representatives also said: “We will comply with the court order and we will call.”
The original case was launched in 2020 by Fortnite Maker Epic in its quest to open iOS to third -party application stores and to open the Apple App for external transaction systems.
With last week’s decision, EPIC CEO Tim Sweeney announced that Epic would return to the App Store, and other application developers said they could reduce prices due to the reduction in commission costs.
To date, it is not clear if Epic still plans to return and if consumers are about to see cheaper applications and integrated purchases. What is clear, however, is that Apple did not make a fight against this decision.
