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| Apple claims to be competitive in the video game market |
In the lead up to the pending lawsuit against Epic Games Apple provided 500 pages of documents containing the findings and conclusions of forensic investigations and primarily describing information exchanged between Apple and Epic Games.
These documents provide the judge with the relevant facts and defend the logical conclusions to be drawn in applying the law to the case.
The company announced Thursday that it intends to argue that it faces massive competition in the video game retail market to defend itself against antitrust lawsuits filed by Fortnite Epic Games.
Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Apple in California federal court last year. As part of the lawsuit, he said: Apple's commission for using the in-app payment system ranges from 15% to 30%, and Apple has long-term control over the app's payment. System. Payment of fees. Installation on the device can lead to non-competitive behavior.
After Epic Games tried to implement its own integrated payment system in the popular Fortnite game, the dispute sparked controversy and Apple then banned the game from its app store.
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, is due to hear the case in May. It should evaluate all the information in the market and analyze whether Apple's actions are not competitive. Signs are the right idea.
Epic Games is based on the idea that the iPhone, with over a billion users, is a unique marketplace for software developers.
Epic Games believes that Apple has a monopoly on this market because it governs how users install software on all devices.
She said: iPhone makers are abusing this feature by forcing developers to offer their software through the App Store because developers have to pay for certain transactions.
In documents provided by Apple, this idea was rejected, saying: The appropriate market for analyzing the problem is the video game trading market, which includes several platforms from different companies, which also limits the programs that can run on their devices and the fees paid. For developers.
Apple plans to say that consumers have several options to implement video game transactions, including purchasing virtual codes from game developers through other platforms (such as Windows PCs) and using tokens on the iPhone without asking game developers. Pay.