Submitted 4 days ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-judge-ruling-control
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.
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?
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.
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.
Good. Operating systems should be neutral. The people who make them should not be allowed to dictate the terms that others use to interact with their platforms.
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.
rats scavenging for the last vestiges of growth in a world that hates them at the moment. Will the rats compromise or will they eat each other? My vote is on the latter.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Hey maybe not fuckepic just this once.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
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
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.
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Pirata@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Always fuck epic, but fuck Apple harder.
That there’s a very narrow overlap of epic and general consumer/other devs interests doesn’t make epic good.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 days ago
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Lmao, the fuckepic and ‘Tim Sweeney is a bastard man’ sentiments were always wildly overblown.
The fact that anyone took Apple’s side in this case because the Epic game store paid for a couple exclusive games to try and break into the market is laughably childish.
Apple literally rips off the entire world to the tune of billions of dollars a year through app store mafia extortion fees alone, let alone the rest of their anti-competitive bullshit.
Epic was just trying to break into the Apple / Google / Steam monopolies and made a couple unpopular / anti-consumer business moves on a couple games, Apple has based their literal entire business model on anti-consumer choices and done that for every single hardware and software device they sell you.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 days ago
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…
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Didn’t Elon gut the FTC?
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I recommend liberal use of the concept of critical support