Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic vs Apple

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Author: Russell Brandom

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case on Friday morning, handing a major setback to Apple’s App Store model.

Under the new order, Apple is:

permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.

In the full ruling, Judge Gonzalez-Rogers explained her thinking on the issue in greater detail. “The court cannot ultimately conclude that apple is a monopolist under...

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