{"id":1169977,"date":"2023-08-09T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1169977"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:13:37","slug":"supreme-court-denies-epics-request-to-open-up-app-store-payments-during-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1169977","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court denies Epic\u2019s request to open up App Store payments during appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/app_store.jpg\" alt=\"App Store icon on an iPhone screen\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/app_store.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"533\" data-width=\"800\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a federal judge&#8217;s injunction against Apple would not be allowed to take effect immediately, rather than waiting for Apple&#8217;s own Supreme Court appeal. That means <em>Fortnite-<\/em>maker Epic Games and other developers in Apple&#8217;s App Store will still be barred from pointing customers to outside purchase points to avoid Apple&#8217;s commission.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Elena Kagan, who handles emergency petitions for California and other states, turned down Epic&#8217;s request, as seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/23a78.html\">the case&#8217;s Supreme Court page<\/a> (and initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-supreme-court-refuses-epic-bid-let-app-store-order-take-effect-apple-case-2023-08-09\/\">reported by Reuters<\/a>, among others). Epic&#8217;s application stems from a complex series of rulings related to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2020\/08\/epic-gives-fortnite-players-discounts-for-skirting-apple-google-fees\/\">Epic&#8217;s initial 2020 lawsuit<\/a>. Apple had largely won in decisions from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/09\/injunction-apple-must-open-up-app-store-payments-in-90-days\/\">a district court in 2022<\/a>, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2023\/04\/apples-ios-walled-garden-doesnt-break-antitrust-laws-appeals-court-affirms\/\">the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in April<\/a>. Those decisions found that Apple&#8217;s policies that iOS apps only be available through its App Store, and those apps only use its own in-app payment systems, did not violate antitrust rules.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th Circuit court did, however, affirm a lower-court decision that there was anti-steering language in Apple&#8217;s developer agreement. Prohibiting developers from pointing to outside purchase methods violated California&#8217;s Unfair Competition Law, the courts ruled. The 9th Circuit allowed an injunction <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/09\/injunction-apple-must-open-up-app-store-payments-in-90-days\/\">prohibiting Apple from enforcing its anti-steering language<\/a> to remain in place but put a stay on it until a potential Apple appeal to the Supreme Court had run its course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1959938#p3\">Read 2 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1959938&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1959938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court denies Epic\u2019s request to open up App Store payments during appeals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a federal judge&#8217;s injunction against Apple would not be allowed to take effect immediately, rather than waiting for Apple&#8217;s own Supreme Court appeal. That means Fortnite-maker Epic Games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1169977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1169977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}