A court has denied appleAppeal for emergency stay on the decision to purchase outside App Store in the US, Takkarch Notified. This means that Apple will no longer be able to collect the fee when the user clicks on the links inside an app that takes them to an external site for purchase. “After reviewing the relevant factors, we are not convinced that the establishment is appropriate.” As described in the filing.
Earlier this year, Judge Yun Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple violated the 2021 decision on the Epic case against Apple. The judge actually ordered Apple to allow developers to instruct users to another payment system, so that they could ignore the App Store’s usual 30 % commission fee. However, Apple still took advantage of cutting 27 % for external purchases, while consumers have been shown a “scary screen” that they will lose the company’s protection if they pay outside the App Store.
As part of the decision, Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to immediately stop collecting fees for external payments in the United States. It also forbade Apple to create rules that prevent developers from presenting users with buttons and links for external payments. Apple complied with the order but immediately filed an appeal for an emergency hold on the decision so that it could resume collecting fees on the purchase of the external app – and now the appeal has been refused.
“The long national nightmare of Apple tax is over,” Epic CEO Tim Swini wrote on X in response to the decision. “Next week’s WWDC is a celebration of Apple’s independence, which developers and consumers have long deserved.” Apple has not yet commented on the matter.
Other companies, such as Amazon and Spotifs, have already moved fast to establish external payment methods for their apps. Epic self re -submitted Foretenite Calling Apple’s actions a “clear retaliation”, the app store was refused. However, on May 20, Fortatite finally returned to the App Store in the United States.