蘋果正在將其在App Store Control上進行鬥爭,今天提出上訴通知 ninth巡迴法院提出上訴通知。此舉挑戰了4月30日,美國地方法院法官伊馮·岡薩雷斯·羅傑斯(Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers)在與Epic Games長期進行的法律鬥爭中做出的挑戰。 That ruling not only barred Apple from collecting commissions on many external app purchases in the US but also included extraordinary judicial rebukes, including a rare referral for a potential criminal contempt investigation.

Judge’s Harsh Rebuke and Contempt Referral

The dispute centers on Apple’s “anti-steering”rules – policies designed to prevent developers from directing users to payment options outside蘋果自己的系統,從而繞過了其佣金結構。 Epic Games在3月份提出的一項動議中成功爭辯說,蘋果的實施違反了加利福尼亞的不公平競爭法的2021年禁令。 In her April 30th order (targeting Docket Entry 1508), Judge Rogers found Apple had “willfully chose not to comply”with the earlier mandate.

She determined Apple acted “with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers,”stated its compliance arguments “strain credulity,”and added, “That it thought this court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation.”

The ruling specifically forbids Apple from imposing any fee or commission on purchases consumers make through external links provided by developers in the US App Store and prevents Apple from restricting how developers display or communicate these links.這場複雜的法律鬥爭已經看到了以前的上訴,在案件編號21-16506和21-16695中在法院文件中確定,強調了其曠日持久的性質。

超出財務影響,羅傑斯法官的決定是其敏銳的語氣和行動。她發現了蘋果財務副總裁亞歷克斯·羅曼(Alex Roman)的證詞,“不可信”和“充滿了誤導和徹底的宣誓”的證詞。在此舉中,法律觀察員在此類情況下被描述為不尋常的情況,法官將蘋果轉交給聯邦檢察官進行潛在的刑事蔑視調查。此外,蘋果因法官所謂的“濫用律師-委託人特權的指定來延遲訴訟的濫用。通過該鏈接在7天內進行的購買-該系統要求開發人員使用Apple的“外部鏈接帳戶權利”。

法院文件揭示了對該計劃的內部分歧,蘋果公司菲爾·席勒(Phil Schiller)最初反對收費結構,擔心與開發人員建立“對抗性關係”。羅傑斯法官最終拒絕了這種方法。

在苛刻的裁決之後,蘋果確實遵守了更嚴格的術語,acted immediately, submitting an updated app utilizing the new freedom, which Apple approved on 5月2日。但是,蘋果在早期就明確了分歧。一位蘋果發言人在5月1日表示:“我們強烈不同意這一決定。我們將遵守法院的命令,我們將提起上訴。” Epic Games, Apple’s primary antagonist in this saga, announced new Epic Games Store terms on May 1st, including a 0% commission tier starting in June 2025 and new “webshops,”explicitly crediting “new legal rulings”for allowing developers to link to these alternatives from within iOS games in the US and EU.

Following Apple’s appeal notice today, Epic revealed plans to use its established EU developer entity to launch its在美國的iOS上存儲和Fortnite,直接挑戰了蘋果的立場。史詩首席執行官蒂姆·斯威尼(Tim Sweeney)此前曾提出過“和平提案”,這表明如果蘋果在全球範圍內採用了法院“無摩擦,無蘋果稅的框架”,Fortnite可以在全球範圍內返回。根據《數字市場法》(DMA),歐盟委員會以5億歐元的罰款(DMA),這是針對大型技術平台的一項廣泛的歐盟法規-針對類似的反向違法行為。當前對禁令範圍的衝突是在1月份美國最高法院的裁決之後,不要聽取蘋果或史詩對最初的2021審判判決的早期上訴,這使加利福尼亞州的反企業反宣判完好無損。

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