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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2021-09-10, 12:32

Round one is a split decision is looks like.

Epic was bad, but Apple needs to change their payment rules for the App Store. Given the South Korean laws I'm not shocked to see this be a push.
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In her decision, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said she agreed with Apple's claim that Epic had violated its developer agreements, and awarded damages equal to 30% of the $12 million Epic collected from iOS users between August and October 2020, plus 30% of any such revenue Epic's collected since then. Rogers also said Apple's rules against allowing developers to direct users to other payment systems was anticompetitive, and issued an injunction to allow developers to do so in their apps.

"Once acceptable, Apple's commission rate is now questioned by some consumers and some developers, like Epic Games, as being overly burdensome and violative of competition laws. Indeed, two related lawsuits were already pending before the Court well before the commencement of this action," she wrote as part of her ruling Friday. "The Court is not persuaded by Epic Games' broad-brush argument that it should not be bound by certain portions of the agreement."

Rogers presided over and decided the case rather than a jury. Her ruling goes into effect in 90 days. Representatives from Apple and Epic didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Speaking of SK, Epic has filed to have Fortnite restored in the SK App Store thanks to that new law.

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