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Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment fees


A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.

Epic Games’ head Tim Sweeney applauded the court’s ruling and said, “The long national nightmare of Apple tax is ended,” in a post on X. In April, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in favor of Epic Games, saying that Apple was in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that barred the company from forcing anticompetitive pricing. This essentially means that Apple must change the App Store rules and allow developers to freely link to their website for purchasing digital goods.

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