From 9 December , Apple must allow iOS app developers to include links to external defrayal options .
The club itself is not tidings : indeed that was the only point Apple lose when Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers made her ruling in the Epic vs Apple trial run back in September . The judge posit at the metre that Apple was “ restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons , external inter-group communication , or other calls to action that direct customers to purchase mechanisms ” .
( Apple was so successful in the other aspects of the case that , despite this reversal , it depict the ruling as aresounding victory . Epic Games was less impressed andappealed – although funnily enough Applealso appeal , object to the individual element we ’re discussing here . )
What is word is the confirmation of the timing , which had been in question . Apple had asked for extra time to comply with the specification , but the justice has now denied the stay , reportsThe threshold .
Apple attorney Mark Perry had claimed it would “ take months to figure out the applied science , economic , business , and other government issue . It is exceedingly complicated . There have to be guardrails and guidepost to protect tiddler , to protect developer , to protect consumers , to protect Apple . And they have to be written into guidelines that can be explained and enforced and applied . ”
But these arguments did n’t rock the justice , who suspected that Apple was hear to put off the change for year . “ You have n’t asked for extra sentence , ” she order . “ You ’ve ask for an cease and desist order which would in effect take years . ”
Apple will now appeal to the Ninth Circuit and will ask that the requirement to allow links to external payments not take result until the separate appeal of the ruling itself has been pick up .
This article originally appeared onMacworld Sweden . Translation ( usingDeepL ) and additional reporting by David Price .
