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By Reuters | Updated: 6 May 2025 12:15 IST

Apple Will Appeal Contempt Ruling in Epic Games Case Over App Store

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The lawsuit by Epic Games aimed to loosen Apple's grip over app transactions

Highlights

Apple's appeal notice did include its planned legal arguments
Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to end several practices
The judge barred Apple from using "scare screens" to deter consumers

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Apple on Monday lodged an appeal to challenge a US judge's ruling that ordered the tech company to immediately open its lucrative App Store to more competition.

Epic Games.

US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in her decision that Apple willfully failed to comply with a 2021 injunction designed to allow developers to more easily steer consumers to potentially cheaper non-Apple payment options.

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Gonzalez Rogers also referred Apple and one of its executives to federal prosecutors for a possible criminal contempt investigation. She refused to put her order on hold, accusing Apple of delaying and purposefully misleading the court.

"Apple sought to maintain a revenue stream worth billions in direct defiance of this court's injunction," Gonzalez Rogers said.

Apple had denied violating of the court's order.

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Apple and Epic Games did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Apple's appeal notice did include its planned legal arguments.

The lawsuit by Epic Games, the maker of online video game Fortnite, aimed to loosen Apple's grip over transactions in applications that use its iOS operating system and how apps are distributed to consumers.

Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to end several practices that she said were designed to circumvent her earlier injunction, including a new 27 percent fee it imposed on app developers when Apple customers complete an app purchase outside the App Store.

The judge also barred Apple from using so-called "scare screens" to deter consumers from using third-party payment options.

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