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Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google asked a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to throw out a jury verdict and a judge's order forcing it to revamp its app store Play. In its first detailed argument to the ...
The company denied the lawsuit’s allegations and said it plans to fight them. Apple added that the lawsuit could empower the government “to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology.”
The case In re Apple iPod iTunes Antitrust Litigation was filed as a class action in 2005 [9] claiming Apple violated the U.S. antitrust statutes in operating a music-downloading monopoly that it created by changing its software design to the proprietary FairPlay encoding in 2004, resulting in other vendors' music files being incompatible with and thus inoperable on the iPod. [10]
The case, Apple Inc. v. Robert Pepper, stems from an action first filed by iPhone consumers in 2011 claiming that commissions charged to app developers inflate prices beyond what would exist in a ...
Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple , accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in ...
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple has monopoly power in the smartphone market and leverages control over the iPhone to “engage in a broad, sustained, and ...
Apple Inc. v. Pepper, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case related to antitrust laws related to third-party resellers. [1] The case centers on Apple Inc.'s App Store, and whether consumers of apps offered through the store have Article III standing under federal antitrust laws to bring a class-action antitrust lawsuit against Apple for practices it uses to regulate the ...