Epic Games Inc. urged a court to force Apple to allow more competition for mobile apps, calling the iPhone maker’s control of its App Store a “dark cloud.”
Epic Games Inc. urged a federal appeals court to force Apple Inc. to allow more competition in the market for mobile applications, calling the iPhone maker’s rigid control of its App Store a “dark cloud.” Thursday’s filing escalates a battle that began in 2020 after Apple removed the Fortnite game from the App Store because Epic created a workaround to paying a 30% fee on customers’ in-app purchases.
Epic told the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a lower-court judge erred in concluding in a September ruling that App Store rules and restrictions aren’t antitrust violations.
Apple faces a number of antitrust lawsuits in and outside…
