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Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court’s Injunction,
wrote Gonzalez Rogers (emphasis original). Apple, despite knowing its obligations thereunder, thwarted the Injunction’s goals, and continued its anticompetitive conduct solely to maintain its revenue stream,
It will be for the executive branch to decide whether Apple should be deprived of the fruits of its violation, in addition to any penalty geared to deter future misconduct,
It forces Apple to compete with other payment services rather than blocking them, and this is what we wanted all along,
In the end, Apple sought to maintain a revenue stream worth billions in direct defiance of this court's injunction,
Gonzalez Rogers said in the ruling Apple's 15-30 percent junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act,
Epic Games chief executive Tim Sweeney said in a post on X, formerly Twitter There’s going to be a lot of latitude for developers to get better deals and for consumers to get better deals,
said Tim Sweeney, Epic’s chief executive Internally, (longtime Apple executive) Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the injunction, but (CEO) Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly,
Apple’s continued attempts to interfere with competition will not be tolerated,
In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option,
This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order,
Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies,
That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the coverup made it worse. For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple,
Rogers said in the ruling If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic,
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