Apple gets to maintain its App Store monopoly, at least for now, after the US Supreme Court rejected a bid from Epic Games to lift a court-ordered stay that would force Apple to let devs go outside the App Store for processing in-app purchases .
Epic, maker of smash-hit video game Fortnite and the Unreal engine, sued Apple in 2020 over the in-app purchase restrictions. While it didn't win the case entirely, Epic did win on its that the"anti-steering" rules in Apple's App Store were unlawful, and thus Apple couldn't require app publishers to use its IAP system if they didn't want to.the ruling from the lower court, particularly the portion that would have forced Apple to allow developers to circumvent its IAP system.last month that it intended to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Justice Elena Kagan, who handles emergency appeals from the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit, denied the emergency application without comment.
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