Apple denies violating US court order in Epic Games lawsuit

IPhone maker Apple on Friday denied violating a court yell governing its App Store and told a California federal judge to reject a quiz by “Fortnite” developer Legend Video games to defend it in contempt.

Apple made the arguments in a filing to U.S. District Settle Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, who presided over Legend’s lawsuit in 2020 accusing Apple of violating antitrust legislation with its tight controls over how patrons download apps and pay for transactions internal them.

The Apple filing criticized what it called an strive by Legend to present Apple’s “instruments and technologies available to developers free of fee.”

Legend, it said, wished the court “to micromanage Apple’s enterprise operations in a vogue that would possibly perchance broaden Legend’s profitability.”

Legend declined to comment. Apple did by some means answer to a quiz for comment regarding the dispute, portion of a lengthy fight between the two corporations.

Legend largely misplaced its case in opposition to Apple, nonetheless Rogers in 2021 ordered Apple to give developers bigger freedom to recordsdata app users to different fee suggestions for digital items.

The U.S. Supreme Court docket in January declined to hear Apple’s attraction of the injunction yell.

Legend said in a court filing closing month that Cupertino, California-essentially based mostly Apple was once in “blatant violation” of the court’s injunction. It pointed to Apple’s imposition of a 27 per cent rate on developers for some purchases, which the video sport maker said makes hyperlinks for different fee suggestions “commercially unusable.”

Legend also alleged Apple barred some apps from informing users about totally different systems to pay for items.

Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Elon Musk’s X and Match Neighborhood closing month echoed Legend’s arguments, telling Rogers that Apple was once in “decided violation” of the court’s yell.

In a identical case that Legend brought in opposition to Alphabet’s Google, a judge in San Francisco is anticipated this yr to diagram back a separate injunction affecting the Google Play Store.

The case is Legend Video games Inc v Apple Inc, U.S. District Court docket, Northern District of California, No. 20-05640.