{"id":1450904,"date":"2024-01-16T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1450904"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:02:13","slug":"epic-fail-scotus-rejects-apples-appeal-in-app-store-tyranny-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/epic-fail-scotus-rejects-apples-appeal-in-app-store-tyranny-case\/1450904\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Fail: SCOTUS Rejects Apple&#8217;s Appeal In App Store Tyranny Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Epic Fail: SCOTUS Rejects Apple&#8217;s Appeal In App Store Tyranny Case<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Amid copyright problems with its Watch, Apple faces more problems this morning as it&#8217;s cash-cow App Store revenues could take a hit after The US Supreme Court refused to consider the tech giant&#8217;s appeal in an anti-trust case with Epic Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The decision will allow an appeals court ruling to go into effect that lets developers direct iPhone users to cheaper purchasing options outside of Apple&#8217;s system<\/strong> &#8211; a decision that will likely affect billions of dollars in revenue for the iPhone maker.<\/p>\n<p>The company charges developers a commission of as much as 30% for digital goods and services sold through its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Epic lost its broader claim that Cupertino, California-based Apple was violating federal antitrust law, and the<strong> justices also rejected Epic&#8217;s appeal Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/apple-iphone-death-rotten-5se-ca.jpg?itok=XyFO-JxH\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, as Bloomberg reports, <strong>The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals found last year that Apple violated California\u2019s Unfair Competition Law by limiting the ability of developers to communicate about alternative payment systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision would let developers circumvent those commissions by including links to process payments on the web instead of within the Apple system \u2013 though the appeals court put that on hold while the Supreme Court appeal was pending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And now, that stay is over&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AAPL&#8217;s share price is down 2.5% in early trading after this headline&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-01-16_06-56-10.jpg?itok=t7rRKh4R\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last month, Epic\u00a0won a jury trial\u00a0against Google and its Play Store for apps on Android phones in a lawsuit mirroring its action against Apple<\/strong>. A federal judge still must determine what changes Google will have to make to its Play Store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 01\/16\/2024 &#8211; 10:02<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/epic-fail-scotus-rejects-apples-appeal-app-store-tyranny-case\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Fail: SCOTUS Rejects Apple&#8217;s Appeal In App Store Tyranny Case Amid copyright problems with its Watch, Apple faces more problems this morning as it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}