Epic Urges Court to Curb Apple’s ‘Dark Cloud’ of App Dominance

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Thursday’s <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/BBLS%20DD%202048129977000194","_id":"0000017e-7946-daaf-adfe-7d5765e20000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">filing escalates a battle that began in 2020 after Apple removed the Fortnite game from the App Store because Epic created a workaround to paying a 30% fee on customers’ in-app purchases.

Epic told the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a lower-court judge erred in concluding in a September ruling that App Store rules and restrictions aren’t antitrust violations.

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