A person exits an apple shop in Beijing, China on 9 April 2025.
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Apple Judge Yavon Gonzalez Rogers said in a judgment on Wednesday that violated and ignored the 2021 decision coming out of the epic Games case.
He wrote that Alex Roman, Vice President of Apple’s Finance, “lied out lump sum in court, when Apple decided to impose a 27% fee on some purchases related to his app store.
Rogers wrote, “Neither Apple, nor its lawyer corrected, now clear, lie,” Rogers said that she considers Apple “to adopt lies and misinformation in this court.”
Rogers said that he referred to American lawyers to investigate the matter whether the criminal contempt proceedings on both Roman and apple be carried forward.
The decision is a spectacular refutation of Apple’s conduct in the test of the epic Games, which concluded in 2021 and appealed in 2023.
While Apple won most of the counts in the original trial, the Epic Games won some concessions tucking inside the 180-stage order: Rogers ordered Apple originally ordered Apple to change its app store, allowing app manufacturers to link their websites inside the iPhone app to shop.
On Wednesday, Rogers accused Apple that he was trying to violate his decision, and kept Apple in contempt.
Rogers says that it was expected under his decision that there would be no Apple Commission in such off-app purchases. But Apple introduced new policies in 2024, which collected 27% commission from some of the purchases, only a little discount from 30% Apple usually collects from in-app purchase. Rogers said that almost every Apple’s decision on the app connecting the policies was anticomttive.
Rogers wrote that Apple presented evidence to the court of internal deliberations about his rule, which was “tailor for litigation” rather than Apple’s real internal discussions.
Rogers wrote, “Contrary to Apple’s early in-court testimony, contemporary business documents show that Apple knew what it was doing and the most anticoative option at every turn.” “To hide the truth, the Vice President of Finance, Alex Roman, lied under a lump sum oath.”
Rogers ordered, immediately effective, to apply its commission on the purchase made for the iPhone app through the web link inside an app for Apple.
Rogers wrote, “This is an prohibition, not a conversation. Once a party order is not over-over.”
An apple representative did not respond to the remarks request. An epic sports representative did not immediately make a comment.
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