Apple on Monday filed an appeal to challenge the US judge’s decision, which ordered the Tech Company to immediately open its lucrative App Store for further competition.
Apple said in a court notice that it would ask the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco to review the April 30 decision, which found the company in contempt of the earlier order in the 2020 Anti -Trust case brought by epic sports.
US District Judge Yuvan Gonzalez Rogers has said in his decision that Apple has failed to comply with the 2021 order, which can allow developers to easily provide consumers to potentially cheap non -Apple payment options.
Gonzalez Rogers also sent Apple and one of his executives to the federal prosecutor to probably investigate criminal contempt. He refused to stop his order, accusing Apple of delaying and deliberately misleading the court.
Gonzalez Rogers said, “Apple tried to maintain billions of worth of taxes for direct defamation of this court order.”
Apple refused to violate the terms of the court order.
Apple and epic sports did not immediately respond to comments requests.
Apple’s appeal notice included legal arguments.
Online Video Game Fortynite -maker Epic Games aims to loose Apple’s grip on applications to transactions that use its iOS operating system and how apps are distributed to users.
Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to eliminate numerous ways, which he said was designed to prevent his first order, including a new 27 % fee imposed on the app developers when Apple users complete the app purchase outside the App Store.
The judge stopped Apple from using the so -called “frightened screens” to prevent users from using third party payment options.
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