Apple says it will appeal after court finds company, executive lied under oath in Epic Games trial

Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York on Aug 1, 2018. Apple willfully violated a 2021 injunction that came out of the Epic Games case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a court filing on Wednesday. She wrote that Apple Vice President of Finance Alex Roman "outright lied" to the court about when Apple had decided to levy a 27% fee on some purchases linked to its App Store. "Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies," Rogers wrote, saying that she considers Apple to "to have adopted the lies and misrepresentations to this Court." Rogers added that she referred the matter to U.S. attorneys to investigate whether to pursue criminal contempt proceedings on both Roman and Apple. "We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court's order and we will appeal," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement. The decision is a striking repudiation of Apple's conduct in the Epic Games trial, wh ... Read full article.