For many years that Apple and Epic Games have been waged a legal battle for many years. The Fortnite developer points to the commissions taken by the apple brand on the in-app purchases of the App Store and the impossibility for other players to launch their own application store on iPhone, iPad and Mac.Epic Games can now offer his Epic Games StoreOn Apple's devices thanks to Digital Markets Act entered into force in March 2024. Brazilian justicehas just decided in favor of Apple on an identical subject.
Apple is no longer obliged to allow third -party application shops in Brazil
On March 6, judge Pablo Zuniga of the Brazilian Federal Court ordered Appleto authorize the installation of third -party application stores on iOS within 90 days, under penalty of a fine of more than $ 40,000 a day. The American company appealed the decision of the court and took it well.
This March 18, a new federal judge decided that Apple could finallyContinue to distribute iOS applications exclusivelyvial’App Store. He considers that the injunction pronounced in early March is neither necessary nor urgent. The Cupertino firm is therefore not completely taken from a business, but has a much greater room for maneuver thanks to this judgment.
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), at the origin of the measures imposed on Apple,can still appeal. Epic Games, who announced the launch of Fortnite in Brazil in July on iOS via Epic Games Store, is enough to look gray.
In Europe, the DMA forces Apple to authorize third -party application shops in its ecosystem. Moreover, this is not the only point on which European legislation does not do the business of the American company.The EU could sanction Applefor non-compliance with anti-orientation rules.
Apple is also found in the viewfinder of German justiceFor its possible anti-competitive practices.
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