Apple on Monday lodged an attraction to problem a US choose’s ruling that ordered the tech firm to instantly open its profitable App Retailer to extra competitors.

Apple in a courtroom discover stated it’s going to ask the San Francisco-based ninth US Circuit Courtroom of Appeals to overview the April 30 ruling, which discovered the corporate in contempt of an earlier order in a 2020 antitrust lawsuit introduced by Epic Games.

US District Choose Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers stated in her determination that Apple willfully didn’t adjust to a 2021 injunction designed to permit builders to extra simply steer customers to doubtlessly cheaper non-Apple fee choices.

Gonzalez Rogers additionally referred Apple and one among its executives to federal prosecutors for a doable legal contempt investigation. She refused to place her order on maintain, accusing Apple of delaying and purposefully deceptive the courtroom.

“Apple sought to take care of a income stream value billions in direct defiance of this courtroom’s injunction,” Gonzalez Rogers stated.

Apple had denied violating phrases of the courtroom’s order.

Apple and Epic Video games didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Apple’s attraction discover did embrace its deliberate authorized arguments.

The lawsuit by Epic Video games, the maker of on-line online game Fortnite, aimed to loosen Apple’s grip over transactions in purposes that use its iOS working system and the way apps are distributed to customers.

Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to finish a number of practices that she stated had been designed to avoid her earlier injunction, together with a brand new 27 % payment it imposed on app builders when Apple prospects full an app buy outdoors the App Store.

The choose additionally barred Apple from utilizing so-called “scare screens” to discourage customers from utilizing third-party fee choices.

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