Epic says that Apple’s new app review guidelines still run afoul of an injunction requiring the company to allow developers to offer payments outside of the App Store.
Epic Games isn’t done with Apple. A 2021 ruling forced Apple to allow developers of App Store apps to link to outside payments, and Epic has now filed a motion asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to enforce her original order. Epic says Apple’s updated developer policy that still reserves 27 percent of outside payments for Apple itself is still unjustified. Epic argues these fees are “essentially the same” as those the company charges for using its payments system.
Epic also says that Apple requires developers to use a specific “Plain Button Style,” which Epic says “is not a button at all” and violates the injunction on Apple forbidding developers from steering — that is, pointing customers to alternative payment “buttons, external links, or other calls to action.” It says that Apple disallowing multi-platform apps like Minecraft from pointing to outside payments violates the judge’s order as well.
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