"But the appeals court says Apple "should" be able to charge a fee based on "the costs that are genuinely and reasonably necessary for its coordination of external links for linked-out purchases, but no more" and that Apple is "entitled to some compensation for the use of its intellectual property that is directly used in permitting Epic and others to consummate linked-out purchases.""
""If you want to have an app go through review with custom linkouts, maybe there's several hundred dollars of fees associated with that every time you submit an app, which is perfectly reasonable because there are real people at Apple doing those things and Apple pays them, and we should be contributing to that," Sweeney says. But he says that the ruling, "completely shuts down, I think, for all time, Apple's theory that they should be able to charge arbitrary junk fees"
The Ninth Circuit largely affirmed that Apple did not comply with the 2021 order allowing developers to link to external payment options. The appeals panel directed the trial judge to consider ways Apple could charge developers reasonable fees tied to genuine costs and limited intellectual-property use for coordinating external links. The prior injunction blocked Apple from taking fees for external payments after practices like a 27% surcharge and requiring plain-text links. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said modest review fees for custom linkouts are reasonable but the ruling prevents Apple from imposing arbitrary "junk fees."
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