The ruling will force Apple to open up payment options on the iOS app store. However, the judge didn’t find the company guilty of running a monopoly, which is what Epic Games has been arguing.
Epic Games isn’t content with Friday’s court ruling forcing Apple to loosen its payment system for the iOS app store. A spokesperson for Epic Games told PCMag the company plans on appealing the court ruling. The reason is because Friday’s ruling only gave Epic Games a partial win. The company’s main goal was to try and convince the court Apple’s iOS store constitutes a monopoly. However, US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wasn’t convinced. Instead, she found that Apple was only in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law for blocking app developers from using other payment systems on the iOS app store. Hence, she ordered an injunction that bars Cupertino from the practice.
