"Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court's Injunction. It did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers which would, by design and in effect, maintain a valued revenue stream; a revenue stream previously found to be anticompetitive."
"Last July's finding by California's District Court was unequivocal in its furious response to Apple's failure to adhere to the court's previous 2023 rulings over allowing third-party stores to sell in-game items on iOS devices, calling Apple's actions 'insubordination' and 'a gross miscalculation.'"
The Supreme Court declined to hear Apple's appeal regarding a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that found Apple in contempt for failing to comply with a District Court order requiring easier access to third-party app stores on iOS devices. The original 2021 Epic Games lawsuit resulted in a District Court finding that Apple's 30 percent fee structure and app store restrictions were anticompetitive. When Apple failed to fully implement the required changes, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers issued a contempt finding, characterizing Apple's actions as willful insubordination and a gross miscalculation designed to maintain anticompetitive revenue streams. The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal effectively ends Apple's legal challenge and upholds the lower courts' antitrust determinations.
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