Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps.
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The judge also referred the case to the US attorney to review it for possible criminal contempt proceedings.
Lmao, the fuckepic and ‘Tim Sweeney is a bastard man’ sentiments were always wildly overblown.
The fact that anyone took Apple’s side in this case (because the Epic game store paid for a couple exclusive games to try and break into the market) is laughably childish.
Apple literally rips off the entire world to the tune of billions of dollars a year through app store mafia extortion fees alone, let alone the rest of their anti-competitive bullshit.
Epic was just trying to break into the Apple / Google / Steam monopolies and made a couple unpopular / anti-consumer business moves on a couple games (all the while taking afar smaller cut of profits than any other store), meanwhile Apple has based their literal entire multi-decade business model on anti-consumer choices and done that for every single hardware and software device they sell you.
They are not remotely comparable. Epic was always fully in the right in their anti-monopoly legal battles.
