Cossack effects continue for Apple after From the federal judge at the beginning of this week, in which the company ordered to stop collecting purchases made outside the App Store. Judge Ivonn Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple uses loopholes to get around Against the company since 2021. Companies do not spend time optimizing payments outside the Apple wall, and To make these changes.
With the latest update available in the App Store, version 9.0.40, Spotify added external references for purchases for subscription, which allows him to advertise lower prices and various levels, without providing almost a third of his income back to Apple from these subscription sales. These changes also laid the basis for microtransactions specific for content, such as an audiobook, are carried out outside the application. Spotify expressed the hope that these changes will create “seamless purchase opportunities that will directly benefit the creators.”
Having approached the web sap, the company was outraged by the fact that Apple needed a lot of time to fulfill the previous order of the same judge in the Epic Games case dedicated to the same issue. This partly says: “The fact that we could not provide these basic services, which were allowed by the order of the judge four years ago, is absurd. The decree made it clear that Apple deliberately abused her market power in order to intentionally harm others and bring benefits only to herself. ”
Epic Games, who launched all this from the original court case, Declaring a limited zero policy for games sold in the Epic Games store. The company also announced Egs Webshops to support purchases outside the application next month.
So far, Apple said With the help of a judge’s decision, the company also made it clear that it intends to appeal. It was a tense week for Apple’s legal team, as this is due to the individual ruling Apple, faced with a patent dispute in the courts of Great Britain, where the iPhone manufacturer was In the detriment of Optis.