Apple presented on Monday an appeal against the ruling of an American judge who ordered the technology company to immediately open its lucrative App Store to greater competition.
In a judicial notice (opens a new tab), Apple announced that it will request the Court of Appeals of the Ninth US circuit, based in San Francisco, to review the April 30 ruling, which declared the company in contempt of a previous order in an antimonopoly demand of 2020 filed by Epic Games.
The American District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declared in her ruling that Apple deliberately breached a 2021 court order designed to allow developers to direct consumers more easily to potentially cheaper payment options that are not Apple.
Gonzalez Rogers also sent one of his executives to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for a possible investigation for criminal contempt. He refused to suspend his order, accusing Apple to deliberately delay and deceive the court.
“Apple tried to maintain an income flow of billions of dollars in direct challenge to the court order,” said Gonzalez Rogers.
Apple denied having violated the terms of the court order.
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The demand for Epic Games, creator of the Fortnite video game, sought to reduce Apple control over transactions in applications that use its iOS operating system and how applications are distributed to consumers.
González Rogers ordered Apple to put an end to several practices that, according to her, were designed to avoid their previous court order, including a new 27% rate imposed on application developers when Apple customers completed a purchase of an application outside the App Store.
The judge also prohibited Apple to use the so -called “fear screens” to deter consumers from using third -party payment options.
With Reuters information
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