According to Apple, the Coalition for App Fairness is actually an Epic alter ego – a sort of Frankenstein monster, created by Epic for the very purpose of influencing this litigation.ĬAF’s genesis was the subject of trial testimony before Rogers, Apple said in its brief opposing the amicus filing. Their brief, at least according to Apple, was not at all an objective portrayal of how the injunction will impact app developers. Here's where Apple's appeal gets interesting: Even as the company wrangled with Epic over who will eventually win the appeal over the injunction and whether Epic, whose leading game was booted from the App Store, even has standing to seek the injunction, Apple also picked a fight with Epic's proposed amici.

29, the Coalition for App Fairness and four individual app developers, including the online dating giant Match Group Inc, told the 9th Circuit that app developers are raring for Rogers’ injunction to take effect “as a vital cure for an extremely harmful and anticompetitive practice in a mammoth sector of the United States economy.” With the new rules in place, the proposed amici said, app developers will finally be able to help consumers free themselves from Apple’s in-house payment system, with its commission-bloated costs. In a proposed amicus brief filed at the 9th Circuit on Nov. Some of those developers disagreed with Apple’s doomsday scenario. That uncertainty, Apple said, will discourage users, which, in turn, will hurt app developers when customers decide not to make purchases.

In Apple’s stay brief to the 9th Circuit, the company’s lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher argued that the injunction threatens the security and privacy of App store users, who could be exposed to scams when they venture out of Apple’s carefully protected realm. District Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland, California, in Epic Games Inc’s antitrust case against Apple – as a disaster that “will harm customers, developers and Apple itself.” The company failed last month to persuade Rogers to stay her order pending Apple's appeal. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page.Ī court-ordered injunction is set to bring major changes this Thursday to the Apple App Store: The tech giant will have to allow app developers to offer links within Apple-run apps that permit users to exit Apple’s system to pay for digital content.Īpple regards the looming injunction – imposed by U.S. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article.

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