Apple tries to delay ruling that bars it from taking a cut on external app payments

In an effort to support a invaluable gross stream, Apple is trying to hold a tribunal ruling that forces the institution to fto iOS app developers successful the U.S. redirect users to outer outgo systems and debar paying a committee to the iPhone maker.

The institution filed an exigency motion precocious connected Wednesday, asking an appeals tribunal to assistance a partial enactment connected a erstwhile ruling.

A U.S. tribunal past week ruled successful favour of Epic Games successful a long-running lawsuit against Apple, aft Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers recovered that Apple did not comply with an bid that was handed down successful 2021.

The caller ruling forces Apple to fto apps connected its U.S. App Store see features that could redirect users to outer systems for making purchases, halt collecting commissions connected those payments, and halt showing “scare screens” — pop-up messages informing users of the dangers of making in-app purchases from non-Apple systems.

Apple is present asking for a enactment connected the prohibitions connected “charging a chopped of transactions that users marque via outer acquisition links, and mounting immoderate conditions connected the connection oregon placement of links oregon different references to outer acquisition options.”

Apple argues that the caller ruling is unwarranted, saying it “dramatically” increases the scope of the earlier injunction, arsenic the tribunal did not primitively barroom the institution from charging commissions connected non-Apple outgo systems — Apple had not started doing that astatine the time.

Apple says it complied with the court’s 2021 injunction by letting developers nexus retired to non-Apple outgo systems. We indispensable enactment that it charged app developers a 27% chopped connected those transactions anyway, successful summation to showing the “scare screens” described above.

The caller bid would effect successful important losses, the institution said. “These restrictions, which volition outgo Apple important sums annually, are based connected behaviour that has ne'er been adjudicated to beryllium (and is not) unlawful; rather, they were imposed to punish Apple for purported non-compliance with an earlier state-law Injunction that is itself invalid,” it said successful the filing.

“Without a stay, these bonzer intrusions into Apple’s concern volition origin sedate irreparable harm,” the institution said.

The iPhone shaper filed an entreaty against the tribunal determination earlier this week. The institution has already complied with the bid and is allowing developers to nexus users retired to implicit purchases extracurricular the App Store ecosystem. Companies similar Spotify and Amazon person already updated their apps to redirect users to their ain websites for payments.