A group of application developers has filed a collective claim against Apple after a judicial ruling against the company for violating a 2021 court order that involves mobile purchases.
The collective lawsuit, presented on May 2, alleges that despite the court order, Apple continued to prevent application developers to indicate users to purchases and subscriptions in the application outside the company’s own ecosystem, so that they were scared.
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Class action is a last turn in a legal saga that mainly faced the epic games, the Fortnite editor, against the world’s largest technological company. A battle of competition has been happening between Epic and Samsung and Google about access to application stores.
The law firm Hagens Berman filed the lawsuit and appointed as its main plaintiff Pure Sweet Basketball, INC, which has a free application to improve basketball skills. The demand says that Apple prevented the company from being linked to a subscription page from its mobile application.
“As a result of Apple’s misconduct, lawyers estimate that potentially more than 100,000 application developers similarly provided by selling products in the application (including submissiones) directly to their payment in the sales application. To receive,” said a representative of Hagens Berman in a publication on the demand.
The way in which Apple and Google application stores govern the way in which subscriptions and purchases are managed in the application within the applications has a long and controversial problem with developers. In 2020 and 2021, Apple, then Google dropped the 30% cut they take to 15%, but only for developers whose applications are earning less than $ 1 million.
That change was not enough to avoid the loads of anti -potreitive practices. Apple continued to prevent developers from directing users outside their applications, where they could a greater profit margin or offer discounts on purchases or subscriptions in the application. Last week, a judge ruled that Apple violated his injury and needs to fulfill immediately.
An Apple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
