Apple sent to a possible criminal investigation

The US District Judge found that Apple intentionally violated its ban on the Epic Games case – and that Apple’s Chief Executive Director “lied”.

The ruling had to block Apple from anti-component behavior and pricing, opening the app store to external payment options.

Judge Ivon Gonzalez Rogers said he referred to the US prosecutor in North California to investigate whether the case is coming to criminal contempt.

Apple reacted to the decree late on Wednesday.

“We strongly disagree with the decision. We will obey the court order and appeal,” said Apple’s press.

The court decision on Wednesday refers to the 2021 case, started by Epic Games, the Fortnite manufacturer, one of the most popular games in the world, which claimed that clients should be available other payment options.

It disputed up to 30% cut apple from purchases-and claimed that the application store was monopolistic.

In his decision in 2021, Judge Gonzalez Rogers said Apple could no longer ban developers who associate on their own purchase mechanisms.

In addition to buying games, another example of how it works is a movie broadcasting service that can tell customers to subscribe through their own website without using Apple purchase mechanism in the app.

In the contempt of the contempt issued on Wednesday, Judge Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple still continues to interfere with the attempts that the court stated that they were “not allowed”.

Judge Gonzalez Rogers added that the internal documents of the company she considered showed that Apple intentionally violated the ban.

The documents show that “that Apple knew exactly what it was doing, and at every turn chose the most anti -competitive option,” she wrote.

She said that CEO Tim Cook ignored the Executive Director Philip Schiller, who called on Apple to implement the ban and allowed the Luca Maestri financial directors not to convince him.

“Cook chose badly,” she wrote.

She also said that Apple’s Vice President Alex Raman’s Financing Company “lied to oath”.

The judge wrote that one example of Apple’s attempts to avoid the ban included the decision to charge 27% of the appointment commission if she had not accused anything before.

The company also imposed new barriers and requirements to prevent customers from using competing procurement platforms, she said.

In a message on X, the founder and CEO of Epic Games Tim SIINI said his company would return Fortnite in the App Store App App and offered an olive industry to its long -term opponent.

“Epic makes a peaceful sentence: If Apple expands without friction, apple tax without taxation worldwide, we will return” Fortnite “to the application store worldwide and abandon the current and future trials on this topic,” Suni wrote.

In another message, he wrote: “No web operations. Apple’s tax game.