Late last year, Apple courted controversy in the gaming world when the company summarily booted Fortnite’s mobile version from its App Store. Since then, users of the most popular battle-royale title out there have been hoping a trial between Epic Games and Apple would settle the matter. Well, mobile fans, buckle up for a rough ride because you’re going to hate this: Apple just said that in balancing equities between the parties, the court must weigh the effect of different harms to both parties, at its own discretion.\n
diehards had been drooling at Epic’s suggestion of seeking injunctive relief to allow fair competition in markets that directly affect their millions of customers. In fact, mostmobile users pretty much had their brain melted by the developer’s citation of both the Sherman Act and the California Cartwright Act as precedent in charging Apple with antitrust behavior.
case to argue that anti-steering policies had been deemed acceptable in practice so long as no harm was shown to either side of any two-sided market. Getting frustrated yet, gamers? Well, we told you, didn’t we?royale greatness, with Epic’s own legal counsel arguing that “notwithstanding its promises to make...tore guidelines have] erected contractual and technological barriers that foreclose competing ways of distributing apps to...
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