After a long legal battle across various jurisdictions, Justice Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the District Court of California handed down an unexpected decision against Apple. In her judgment, Justice Rogers issued an injunction against Apple to prevent the company from forcing users to use Apple in-ap
The Apple and Epic Games proceedings arose out of an alleged breach of competition and consumer law by Apple, primarily through its monopolistic control of systems in the App Store. For all App Store payments, Apple claims a 30 per cent fee. As such, Epic Games claimed that Apple holds ‘an antitrust monopoly over (i) Apple’s own system of distributing apps on Apple’s own devices in the App Store and (ii) Apple’s own system of collecting payments and commissions of purchases made on Apple’s own devices in the App Store.’ In the US proceedings, a central focus was on the relevant market, ie. whether Apple maintains a monopoly over general digital app marketplaces or whether Apple and Epic Games compete in the market for digital video games.