In the latest round of Apple’s fiasco with Epic Games, the game studio has filed for a new legal injunction against a 2021 U.S. Northern District of California ruling that granted Apple a victory but forced it to allow other in-app payment methods in the U.S. . Even though Apple won an antitrust lawsuit and was forced to open up alternative in-app payment methods, it still charges a 27% commission on every payment made to developers outside the App Store and to developers in the App Store Small Business program 12% commission.
Epic’s new argument contends that developers should, on its face, be able to bypass Apple’s 30% in-app payment cut through alternative in-app payment systems, and asks Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to enforce her order. Epic argued that developers were still paying nearly the same amount for payments outside the App Store, violating the court’s ruling.
Additionally, Apple forced developers to use “plain button styles” in links to external payments that were not actual buttons, violating the court ruling because developers could not point customers to alternative payment methods.
Epic also listed multi-platform apps such as Minecraft that do not allow external payment links to be displayed, claiming that Apple is trying to block alternative payments by restricting and bending its App Store policies. We’ll make sure to provide you with more up-to-date information as the legal dispute between Epic and Apple arises.
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