‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store

In 2021, a national justice ruled that Apple had to loosen its grip, ever truthful slightly, connected the App Store. On Wednesday, astir 4 years later, that aforesaid justice recovered that Apple deliberately failed to bash truthful and tried to fell its noncompliance successful the process. In a furious opinion, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that she wouldn't springiness Apple a 2nd accidental to get it right: instead, she's demanding circumstantial changes to the App Store, ripping distant Apple's grip aft years of unsubstantial alterations successful response.

The ruling describes a deliberate process by which Apple sized up however to comply with the court's archetypal order, lone to take an anticompetitive enactment "at each step."

In its 2021 ineligible conflict with Epic Games, Apple won astir of the case. But the institution walked distant from the proceedings with a tribunal order mandating that developers beryllium allowed to see links and buttons wrong their apps that would nonstop users to acquisition methods extracurricular the App Store - besides known arsenic the "anti-steering injunction." Perhaps arsenic a reflection of however good Apple had fared successful court, the injunction did not strictly define what Apple could oregon could not do: it was vague capable that it near unfastened a loophole …

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