Apple warns ruling in App Store case may cost ‘substantial sums annually’

Apple has asked the Federal Appeal Court temporarily to stop the provincial judge’s ruling, which requires him to allow more competition in the Apple App Store, on the pretext that it will be exposed to an irreplaceable damage if the decision is not stopped.

Apple provincial court has ordered the restrictions imposed on application developers after maintaining Apple in contempt for an order issued in a claim against the monopoly of 2020, which was submitted by epic games, Fortnite video creator.

Of these fees, 27 % evaluated Apple on application developers when customers make a purchase process outside the application store, in addition to restricting the location of the place where developers can offer links to users to make purchases outside the application.

The technology giant said on the Wednesday submitted by the Court of Appeal in the ninth district that the province’s court “permanently prevents Apple from exercising the basic aspects of its commercial operations, including imposing fees on its property and protecting the safety of its platforms and purchasing mechanisms within the application.”

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“These restrictions, which will cost Apple large sums annually, are based on behavior that has never been decided to be (and not) illegal; instead, they were imposed to punish Apple on the alleged lack of compliance with a previous judicial order in the state and which is in itself is invalid,” the company argued in the deposit.

“Motion’s Motion is” the last effort to prevent competition and extract unwanted fees at the expense of consumers and developers. “

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“Since the provincial court issued a contempt for the court’s decision, Apple has faced an increase in real competition as the developers have updated their applications with better payment methods, better deals, and a better choice for consumers – all of whom benefit from consumers in the United States in 2021 originally intended,” continued the EPIC game statement. “We are advancing at the utmost speed to bring Fortnite to iPhone and iPad devices in the United States this week.”

The court requests Apple to drop restrictions on the application developers using its application store. (Jakub Porzycki / Nurphoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

“Apple has sought to maintain the flow of revenues worth billions of dollars in the direct challenge of the orders of this court,” American boycott judge, iPhone Gonzalez Rogers, said in its ruling.

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She added that Apple has misled the court about its efforts to comply with its judiciary, and the company and one of the executives were referred to federal prosecutors to conduct a possible investigation into the field of criminal contempt.

Reuters contributed to this report.