Apple can no longer force developers to use in-app purchasing, judge rules:
A U.S. judge on Friday issued a ruling in "Fortnite" creator Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit against Apple's App Store, striking down some of Apple's restrictions on how developers can collect payments in apps.
The ruling says that Apple cannot bar developers from providing buttons or links in their apps that direct customers to other ways to pay outside of Apple's own in-app purchase system, which charges developers commissions of up to 30 percent. The ruling also said that Apple cannot ban developers from communicating with customers via contact information that the developers obtained when customers signed up within the app.
The ruling comes after a three-week trial in May before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Apple shares moved down about 2.5 percent on news of the decision.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 14 2021, @03:35PM (2 children)
Whew! Google is safe from this. Not a single mention of Android in this.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:45PM
Sure, since Google doesn't disallow installation of apps through other means than their app store, they can impose restrictions on the apps in their app store without triggering antitrust. You can just choose to sell through another app store instead, or even put up your own.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday September 14 2021, @09:50PM