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Epic asks judge to enforce the Apple App Store injunction
Apple’s rules for app payments are still too harsh, says Epic.
Christian Owens, who founded payments processor Paddle, and Benjamin Simon, the founder behind the Down Dog fitness apps for iOS, agreed in declarations also filed by Epic. Epic also says that Apple requires developers to use a specific “Plain Button Style,” which Epic says “is not a button at all” and violates the injunction on Apple forbidding developers from steering — that is, pointing customers to alternative payment “buttons, external links, or other calls to action.” It says that Apple disallowing multi-platform apps like Minecraft from pointing to outside payments violates the judge’s order as well. Daniel McCuaig, an attorney who used to be part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, told The Verge in January that Apple’s outside payment terms were untenable and that it was “unlikely” that the court “ultimately blesses” the 27 percent fee.
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