Apple won’t be required to make changes ordered in Epic ruling during appeal
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Apple has demonstrated, at minimum, that its appeal raises serious questions on the merits of the district court’s determination that Epic Games, Inc. failed to show Apple’s conduct violated any antitrust laws but did show that the same conduct violated California’s Unfair Competition Law. See City of San Jose v. Off. of the Com’r of Baseball, 776 F.3d 686, 691–92 (9th Cir. 2015) (“[U]nder California law ‘[i]f the same conduct is alleged to be both an antitrust violation and an “unfair” business act or practice for the same reason—because it unreasonably restrains competition and harms consumers—the determination that the conduct is not an unreasonable restraint of trade necessarily implies that the conduct is not “unfair” toward consumers.’” (quoting Chavez v. Whirlpool Corp., 113 Cal. Rptr. 2d 175, 184 (Cal. Ct. App. 2001))).
In other words, if the appeals court agrees with the district court that federal antitrust laws were not violated (which is very likely) then they're going to overturn the UCL judgement as well.
So once again this comes to no surprise. Even when the Verge continuously reported false news about the ruling from the start.
> Apple can maintain its App Store payment monopoly while the case proceeds
Literally both judges said it was NOT a monopoly, and the ruling is not "apple must stop being a monopoly" (which is the only way that sub-headline makes sense).
Is this a kind of "manifest destiny" kind of thing, where they are trying to will it into existence?
Judges and many influentials in the Justice system repeatedly give almost no punishments to white collar crime. Yet the same people many times say justice is being served in the country.
A more direct example: Courts still rule that gerrymandering for the purpose of screwing over the other party is allowed. Of course wink wink they say it isn’t allowed. However some basic obvious lying is all that’s required to allow this.
It’s still politically motivated and undemocratic gerrymandering/voter suppression. Regardless of what judges or the Justice system says.
Laws and the Justice system are just that. They aren’t beacons of principle or morality.