maximara

One only has to go to statcounter to see this is a total BS lawsuit: (For India) Android 72.81%; Windows 17.9%; Unknown 3.86%; iOS 2.73%; Linux 0.97%; OS X 0.91%

Limited to just the mobile market (for India): Android 95.53% iOS 3.43%; KaiOS 0.81%; Samsung 0.11%; Nokia Unknown 0.04%; Tizen 0.03%

The very idea that Apple dominates anything outside of its own brand is so insane that the CCI should regard the Together We Fight Society with the same contempt the Ninth Circuit regarded the Coalition for App Fairness (nothing but a mouthpiece/sock puppet and not worth the government's time to even listen to)

tenthousandthings said:

maximara said:

I thought this had already been decided and not granted.  What am I missing?

The first request for a stay was to the original judge. This request is to the circuit Court of Appeals. 

The original judge was unlikely to grant a stay. The appeals court is the appropriate court to grant a stay, and it seems likely it will do so. 

Except that is not what the title says: "Apple again asks Court of Appeal to stay Epic Games injunction" ie Apple previously went to the Court of Appeals and was refused.  I again ask what am I missing?

mejsric said:

These developers should be happy that Apple Developer Program annual fee is only 99 USD. 

Renting space on stores/malls is very expensive.

A friend of mine ran a little shops you see in the middle of indoor malls (about the size of a walk-in closet) back in the early 1990s.  He was paying $1000/month.

davidlewis54 said:

It is entirely reasonable for Apple to set a standard by which app developers comply. Why should Apple provide the App Store free? It has cost Apple a huge amount to create it. Plainly many developers are happy enough to pay a fee. When you go shopping, you pay a sum which covers the store’s overheads. Where does £200 billion come from? That is obviously completely fanciful.  If the apps are free, the amount of compensation is obviously nil: any percentage of nothing is nothing. To me such a claim is vexatious litigation and the court should throw it out. 

Why is the court wasting its time with these two?  The points they are raising have already been addressed in the Epic vs Apple case ( Case 4:20-cv-05640-YGR Document 812 Filed 09/10/21) and other than the anti-steering provision Epic lost on every point.  It should be noted Apple has asked for a dismissal of the the lawsuit (something the OP doesn't mention). The court should rule for Apple and hit them for Apple's legal feed and send a clear message to those looking for a big court payout.

9secondkox2 said:

Their is no antitrust. No monopoly. No breaking of the law going on. How the previous judge went above their pay grade and basically legislated from the bench is beyond rational thought. 

Let’s see a judge on appeal who actually does their job snd simply rules based on right snd wrong according to the law. 

To be fair to the Judge that one point Apple lost on seems to be due to California state law not federal law.  I have no idea how well that part will hold up via appeal.