A federal judge said Apple had violated an judicial order that obliged to open the application store ‘AP Store’ before the pay options of the third parties, and ordered the company to stop the imposition of commissions on purchases that take place outside its digital platform and note that it could be referred for a criminal investigation. And US judge, iPhone Gonzalez Rogers, issued a sharp decision on Wednesday in which she stood with the company “Epic Games”, developed by the “Fortnite” game, which “Apple” accused of not being the court issued in 2021, which concluded that the company was against the competitive behavior in the California right. Judge Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to the federal prosecution to investigate whether Apple committed the crime of a disdain of the Criminal Court by ignoring the judicial ruling issued in 2021. So far, the US prosecutor’s office in San Francisco has refused to comment on the case. Financial consequences for “Apple” can make changes that the company must now implement with major damage to the revenue of the application store, which is estimated annually at ten billions of dollars. Apple is also facing the possibility of billion dollars due to the loss of the payments that Google has provided to be the virtual search engine in the Safari browser, a point currently subject to a fight against a monopoly monopoly claim against the unit “alphabet in your”. After a few weeks of hearings held last year and this year, Judge Gonzalez Rogers concluded on Wednesday that Apple “deliberately violated his judicial order.” “I have made an explicit intention to create new barriers to competition, with a view to design and influence to maintain a valuable source of income; a source was previously assessed by anti competition.” She added: “Her belief that this Court will endure this disobedience was a fatal error in appreciation.” Apple said in a statement that it “strongly opposes this decision”. A representative of the company added: “We will comply with the court order and we will appeal.” Epick Games CEO Tim Sweeney described the referee as a ‘big win for developers’ and said in a phone call with journalists that ‘Apple is being forced to compete with other pay services instead of prohibiting it.’ After a hearing conducted in 2021, Judge Gonzalez Rogers was largely at Apple, considering that the application store policies did not violate the federal monopotic law. However, the company has obliged to allow developers to exceed the payment instrument within its application to avoid a commission of up to 30%. This ruling was eventually supported by the US High Court last year, when he refused to consider the appeal presented in the case. Apple allowed developers to target users to the web to complete the purchases in the application, but it determined that developers paid 27% of the revenue they obtained for the business. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, the judge said that “Apple” was not trying to cover his compliance with his judicial order issued in 2021. Judge Gonzalez Rogers wrote: “After two rounds of evidence -based listening sessions, the truth appeared. Apple, despite her knowledge of his obligations, retained the goals of the Judicial Order. A false testimony to Apple official said the judge said that Alex Roman, vice president for financial affairs, claims that Apple has not seen analogs or alternatives to estimate the cost of other payment solutions that developers may have to facilitate through external links, “Rogers wrote and noted that Apple had already considered these alternatives. Because the company and his attorneys did not rectify the testimony of Roman, the judge wrote: concluded that “Apple” abused the principle of confidentiality between the lawyer and the client in his attempt to block “EPEC” information, and obliged it to pay the legal costs that “Eppique” bought while trying to obtain the documents. The case carries the number 20-CV-05640, between the two companies Epic Games Inc. and Apple Inc., in the US District Court of the Northern Region of California (Auckland).
A court ruling prevents “Apple” commissions from collecting outside the application store
