"The appeals judges decided the ban that would have prevented Apple from imposing fees on rival payment options was too severe and ordered Gonzalez Rogers to reopen the case to determine a fair commission rate that the Cupertino, California, company, can charge. The ruling provided some general guidelines for how Gonzalez Rogers might determine a fair commission on external payment systems, but didn't make any suggestions about what the percentage might be."
"But the appeals decision agreed Apple had made a mockery of Gonzalez Rogers' attempt to create more payment competition in the iPhone app store as part of a case that began in 2020. That's when Epic, the maker of the Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit alleging Apple had set up a price-gouging system within the iPhone app store that had turned into an illegal monopoly."
A federal appeals court largely upheld a contempt ruling finding Apple violated an order to open its iPhone App Store to alternate payment systems. The Ninth Circuit overturned the part of the contempt order that barred Apple from collecting commissions on purchases using external payment systems, calling that ban too severe. The court directed U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to reopen the case to determine a fair commission rate and provided general guidance without naming a percentage. The decision noted Apple's defiance of the remedy and referenced Epic Games' 2020 lawsuit alleging Apple's walled garden and price-gouging.
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