Epic Games, the developer of the online video game Fortnite, announced that it will make a presentation in the United States Justice for appeal the ruling in his antitrust case against Apple.
On Friday, September 10, a federal judge issued a decision that was taken as contrary to the interests of both companies, since it did not endorse Epic Games in their request and damaged, in some way, the Cupertino company.
The judge said on Friday that Apple should relax some rules related to the app store and its relationship with developers. This was bad for the company led by Tim Cook, which makes very good profits from that relationship.
However, the decision favored Apple in many other respects, such as allowing the iPhone maker to continue to ban integrated payment systems in third-party apps.
It also allowed Apple to continue charging fees of up to 30 percent. Reuters.
Although Apple shares fell on Friday when investors thought it was a defeat for the apple brand, the situation in the stock market reversed this Monday, September 13, with go up 1 to 2 percent on the Wall Street premarket.
Before the ruling was released, in late August, Apple announced changes to its App Store regulations that will allow app developers to inform users about payment options for services outside of the app store. the company led by Cook.
The out-of-court settlement with other plaintiffs was carried out to decompress the situation and avoid a ruling against it.
It was a clever maneuver by Apple’s lawyers and a move that experts understand was key so that the decision of Justice was not very negative for Cupertino.
The change will make it easier for some applications to direct customers to payment methods other than the App Store, where the company collects its fees.
In 2020, and when the lawsuits were already a veritable avalanche of cases, Apple decided to reduce most of the commissions by 50 percent (up to 15 percent) for application developers that did not generate more than one million downloads to through the App Store.
The lawsuits had started a year earlier, when a group of app developers sued Apple accusing it of violating antitrust laws for the way it ran its Apple Store.