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Apple has a deliberate “barrier” the technical giant that the Tech giant in the United States, which requires a technical giant to change the rules of the App Store.
On Wednesday, a new twist, who lied to an attempt to try to cross the command of the judge’s financial management, noted a new twist in a surprising rebuke and long legal battle Epic games.
“Apple He chose not to knowingly respond. . . With the intention of designing the design and influence to create anti-competitive barriers, “California federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote.
It was a “gross wrong calculation”, he wrote. “As always, the cover was worse.”
“The court refers to the issue for the northern district of California, to investigate whether the crime is the period of disrespect,” he said.
The operation stems from the epic games of the high-level antitrust claim against Apple against Apple in 2020. The iPhone Maker mainly defeated the lawsuit in court and subsequent appeals.
However, the company has still faced an order that requires a command to change the rules of customers outside the app store outside the app store, and for some products for some products
Apple’s App Store is an increasing part of global income in the first quarter of the year, according to Sensor Tower.
Apple can complain about the command. Did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
A citizen was unusual in a company prosecutor in antitrust work, the decision was unusual, Gary Bornstein, an attorney for epic games. “I have never seen before.”
Apple has changed the rules by changing the rules to allow the developers outside the application, for example, to allow a mechanism to create a mechanism for a purchase of the developer’s website. However, the curriculums of these procurement have continued to search for 27 percent of these procurements, demanding the company to offer for sale.
Epic games prevented these and other measures from using the choice of voters, and therefore violated the command. In February, several Apple leadership testified about their efforts to disgrace in February. After the judge asked the internal document than the iPhone manufacturer, the initial hearing in May 2024 has been postponed.
At the decree on Wednesday, Gonzalez Rogers, Apple’s App Store, creating new obstacles to lock customers in the App Store, said the compliance plan has prepared a compliance plan to protect the flow of income.
“Hiding the truth, the President of Finance, Alex Roman, explicitly lied,” he said. The documents found during the trial were revealed, “Apple has chosen what this is done and the most competitive choice in every turn,” he said.
Phil Schiller, a large Apple Executive Director, who testified before the judge this year, defended against Apple, who presented new payments.
However, Chief Executive I Executive Tim Cook “Havadic Shiller and instead (later) The General Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his financial team was allowed to convince him,” he said. “The cook has chosen poorly.”
Maestri left the role as CFO earlier this year.
Tim Sweeney said the CEO of Epic Games will be popular on Wednesday Fortnite Game to the App Store next week. Apple drew the game from the Apple store when Epic exceeds payment policy in August 2020.
Apple encountered similar pressure in Europe via the App Store rules. AB before this month Tech Group 500 mln In the same way, the consumers of applications do not comply with the rules that require you to allow direct consumers to offer the platform of consumers.
