Apple exec ‘outright lied’ during Epic trial

In her ruling banning Apple from charging a committee connected purchases made extracurricular the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple enforcement “outright lied nether oath.”

According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of concern astatine Apple, gave grounds that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The justice writes that Roman lied erstwhile testifying that Apple hadn’t decided connected the 27 percent fig for its interest connected purchases extracurricular the App Store until January 16th, 2024.

“Contemporaneous concern documents uncover that connected the contrary, the main components of Apple’s plan, including the 27 percent commission, were determined successful July 2023,” Gonzalez Rogers says. “Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, present obvious, lies.”

Gonzalez Rogers says that she is referring the lawsuit to a US lawyer for imaginable transgression contempt proceedings against Apple and Roman.

“Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court’s Injunction,” Gonzalez Rogers says astatine the extremity of the filing (emphasis hers). “It did truthful with the explicit intent to make new anticompetitive barriers which would, by plan and successful effect, support a valued gross stream; a gross watercourse antecedently recovered to beryllium anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate specified insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the cover-up made it worse. For this Court, determination is nary 2nd wound astatine the apple.”