Apple faces potential criminal charges after a federal judge ruled that the technology giant violated an antitrust order regarding application store restrictions.
In an explosive ruling on Wednesday, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote that Cook “chose poorly” when he directed his allegations to suspect that he opposed a court order regarding Apple’s long dispute with epic games.
“Fortnite” makes Apple accused of anticompetitive behavior after imposing solid developers tariffs, resulting in an order of 2021 requiring Apple to allow developers to provide users alternative ways to pay services and reconciliations outside the app store.
According to Rogers, Apple’s internal discussions revealed that elderly leaders, including Phillip Schiller, Apple’s senior marketing vice president, pushed the company to implement the court order, but that Cook was finally tied with his finance team in pursuing a different path.
“Inside, Phillip Schiller had defended Apple to agree with the order, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed the chief of financial officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to persuade him otherwise,” the judge wrote in a sharp thought.
“Cook chose poorly.”
Rogers also accused another senior Apple executive, Alex Roman, of having “fully lied” during the legal battle of the iPhone creator with epic games on his controversial App Store fees.
“To hide the truth … novel … fully lied under oath,” wrote Rogers, stating that Apple “adopted lies and abuses in this court.”
In the extraordinary ruling, Rogers, which was named after Barack Obama, made it clear that this was not a case of misunderstanding or neglect.
The evidence “more than meet the clear and persuasive standard of finding a violation”, Rogers were rented while it referring to the case at the US lawyer’s office to consider charges of criminal contempt again in Apple and Relay Individuals.
“This is an order, not an negotiation. There is no action because a willful party does not accept a court order,” Rogers wrote.
In response, Apple issued a statement saying: “We do not strongly agree with the decision. We will respect the court order and appeal.”
The novel did not respond to requests for comment.
2021 Order at the center of the Apple-Epic Games Battle stopped technology to prevent developers from incorporating in their applications “buttons, external links or other calls”
The company was also prohibited from stopping developers from communicating with customers “through the contact points voluntarily received by customers through account recording within the app.”
The novel, which bears the title of Apple’s Deputy Chairman, was accused by the judge of fraudting the court over the 27% company’s controversial company for the App Store’s purchases.
According to court documents, the novel has falsely proved that Apple did not appreciate the costs that developers would face when using alternative payment methods for related purchases.
However, the judge revealed that Apple had in fact considered those external costs and deliberately set his high commission to overcome them, undermining the credibility of the novel’s request.
The novel also told the court that Apple had not decided what fee to impose on these purchases until January 16, 2024.
The judge rejected this state as another lie, citing internal business data that showed that Apple had already defined the key elements of his plan – including the 27% commission – again in July 2023.
Apple-Epic disagreement control in epic games challenging Apple’s control over its application store and in the application payment system, accusing the technology giant for anti-incompeting behavior after Apple removed the popular “Fortnite” game to bypass its 30%commission.
Although Apple mainly prevailed in the wider case of antitrust, EPIC provided a significant release at this specific point aimed at curb Apple’s predominance over digital trade in iOS.
Effectively immediately, Rogers ordered Apple to cease to collect commissions for purchases made through external links within applications.
She also led the company to cover Epic Games’s legal tariffs on the issue of contempt.
Director General of Tim Sweeney Epic Games welcomed the ruling as a milestone for app developers.
“It’s a great victory for developers,” he said in a conference call. “This forces Apple to compete. That’s what we loved all together.”
Additional report by Thomas Barrabi
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