In November, a US federal judge ordered the iPhone maker to apply a September court ruling in a case that pitted it against Epic Games and against which it appealed.
In particular, Apple was required to let publishers bypass the commission levied on its App Store (via a link to third-party stores for example), with a deadline of December 9 at the latest. Apple claimed that it took longer to modify its systems and that, as a call was in progress, “ no additional trade changes are expected to come into effect Before the end of the appeals.
Apple has appealed the decision to open its App Store on December 9 and justice has just ruled in its favor by suspending this injunction, as reported by The Verge. In short, nothing changes for the moment. A reprieve while waiting for the merits of the case to be judged… which can take months or years.
The second part of the September injunction is not affected: developers can inform their customers that other means of payment exist.
Apple is obviously delighted with this decision. She says in passing that her concern was that these changes would have created “ new privacy and security risks, and disrupted the user experience that customers enjoy in the App Store “. In addition of course to deprive the company of its commission of 30%.
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