masterspace, (edited )

The story so far

  • Epic Games introduced its own in-app payment system on iPhone which takes a 3% cut of revenue, the same as on Android, Windows, and MacOS
  • This bypassed the App Store, and denied Apple its 30% commission cut of revenue
  • This was a blatant breach of App Store terms & conditions
  • Apple responded by throwing the company off the App Store
  • The two companies went to court in the US
  • The US court told Epic that, no, Apple did not operate a monopoly according to famously narrow US antitrust precedent
  • The US court told Apple that, yes, it must allow app sales outside the App Store
  • Both sides appealed the parts of the ruling they didn’t like
  • The Republican stacked US Supreme Court declined to hear either appeal
  • Meantime, the EU Digital Markets Act also required third-party app stores
  • Apple agreed to comply in both the US and EU the EU
  • But it imposed terms which have been described as malicious compliance

Fixed that for you, 9-5 Mac.

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