Published on: 2025-07-30 16:50:03
Five years ago, Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for its in-app purchase policies. Since then, things mostly haven’t worked out in Epic’s favor. But this week, a federal judge rebuked Apple for “willfully violating” an earlier injunction. Coupled with claims that a top Apple executive lied under oath and a referral for criminal contempt, Epic may have secured a major victory for developers. Epic’s lawsuit stems from its intentionally violating App Stor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 11:20:26
Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—and one of its executives lied under oath about the company’s plans, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has referred the situation to the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco “to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.” In 2021, Gonzalez Rogers presided over a lawsuit brought by Fortnite developer Epic Games over the iPhone maker’s allegedly an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 18:19:21
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In her ruling banning Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple executive “outright lied under oath.” According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The judge writes that Roman lied when testifyin
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