Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/
Apple has won its antitrust-focused appeals court battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games over its App Store policies, according to the opinion issued today by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court upheld the district court’s earlier ruling related to Epic Games’ Sherman Act antitrust claims in favor of Apple, but also upheld the lower court’s judgment in favor of Epic under California’s Unfair Competition Law.
The mobile game maker had hoped to prove in its appeal that Apple had acted unlawfully by restricting app distribution on iOS devices to Apple’s App Store which required payments to go through its own processor while preventing developers from communicating to customers about alternative ways to pay.