A person walked out of an Apple store in Beijing, China on April 9, 2025.
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apple Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a decision Wednesday that he deliberately violated and ignored the 2021 decision.
Alex Roman, Apple's vice president of finance, said she wrote that when Apple decided to charge a 27% fee for some purchases related to its app store.
"Neither Apple nor the lawyer corrected the lies that are now obvious," Rogers wrote. She believes Apple "has taken lies and false statements against this court."
Rogers added that she turned the matter over to a U.S. lawyer to investigate whether to file a criminal contempt lawsuit against Rome and Apple.
The decision is a surprising negation of Apple's actions at the Epic Games trial, which ended in 2021 and appealed in 2023.
Although Apple won the vast majority of charges in the original trial, Epic Games did win some offers hidden in 180-page orders: Rogers initially ordered Apple to make changes to its app store, allowing app makers to link their websites in iPhone apps for customers to make purchases.
On Wednesday, Rogers accused Apple of deliberately trying to violate her ruling and despise Apple.
Rogers said that according to her ruling, such non-app purchases are expected to be without the Apple Commission. However, Apple proposed new policies in 2024 that collected 27% commissions from some of these purchases, with 30% of Apple typically collecting a little discount from in-app purchases. Rogers said nearly every Apple decision about its app link policy is anti-competitive.
Rogers wrote that Apple provided evidence to the internal deliberation court about its rules that “rule for litigation” rather than actual internal discussions by Apple.
"In stark contrast to Apple's initial on-field testimony, while business documents show that Apple knows exactly what it is doing and that the most anti-competitive options are chosen everywhere," Rogers wrote. "To hide the truth, Alex Roman, vice president of finance, was sworn in."
Rogers ordered now, causing Apple to stop the commissions purchased for iPhone apps through web links in the app.
"This is an injunction, not a negotiation. One party deliberately ignores the court order and does not take any action."
An Apple representative did not respond to a request for comment. The epic game representative did not comment immediately.
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