Mastodawn

Apr 30, 2025

Things took a MAJOR turn for Apple's App Store:

- In the Epic v. Apple case, the court has found Apple in willful violation of a previous injunction on anticompetitive conduct

- Effective immediately, Apple can no longer impose commissions on purchases made via external links or have a say on link placement

- An Apple VP lied under oath and the court is referring to the U.S. Attorney to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate

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Filing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283-epic-v-apple-contempt-order/

Epic v. Apple Contempt order

"Cook chose poorly."

The revised text of the 'Scare Screen' you get when making a purchase via a link was a Tim Cook idea – telling people that Apple is not responsible for the security of web purchases.

(on a personal note: LOL)

"tells ppl its dangerous and they are leaving the app store."

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Jonathan Dechko

@viticci Personally, I thought the “scare sheet” was always fine, even if a bit heavy handed. Plenty of websites have similar messages when linking out to another site (I.e.: banks and healthcare).

Not only that, but I think it served an important customer service purpose. By proceeding, Apple is no longer responsible (for billing, scams, etc) and would be unable to help resolve any issues.

But because Apple refused to give just an inch, everything gets thrown out.

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Tor Lillqvist May 1, 2025

@jdechko @viticci Especially some open source software sites show somewhat pointless obvious messages even when you follow a link to well-known sites like YouTube. Is it really necessary to warn people that YouTube is a separate site from some LibreOffice site?