Sign up here: techcrunch.com/newsletters This week we’re looking into the upcoming Apple lawsuit with Epic Games over App Store fees, the soon-to-launch game changer that is App Tracking Transpa …
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Apple is reportedly refusing to testify at an upcoming congressional antitrust hearing as its App Store remains at the center of scrutiny
Load Error The hearing will discuss Apple and Google’s app store policies and allegations of anticompetitive behavior. Both companies take a 30% cut from in-app purchases, according to their policies.
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Apple plans to skip app store hearing, drawing ire from senators
Apple later countersued, alleging that Epic breached its App Store developer contract. Epic also sued Google over the same issue. The letter pointed to an interview Cook did for a New York Times …
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Apple refuses request to testify for Senate app store hearing
say the company “abruptly” decided not to provide a witness for an April hearing on digital markets focused on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store. “Apple abruptly declared that it would not …
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Senators criticize Apple’s refusal to testify in hearing on app store rules
Apple appears unwilling to take part in an upcoming hearing the Senate plans to hold on anti-competitive app store practices. In a letter spotted by Bloomberg that’s addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook, …
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U.S. Senators Urge Apple to Reconsider Decision Not to Testify in Upcoming App Store Hearing
Apple has decided not to testify in a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on antitrust issues related to mobile App Stores, and U.S. senators …
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Senior Apple anti-fraud engineer suggests App Store checks are grossly inadequate
Internal documents released as part of the Epic Games lawsuit reveal an Apple anti-fraud engineer suggesting that App Store checks were grossly inadequate. Epic cited two particularly damning …
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Apple Brings ‘Plastic Butter Knife To A Gunfight’ When It Comes To App Store Security — Company Engineer’s Comment Surfaces In Epic Trial
Legal documents released by “Fortnite” video game developer Epic Games Inc. revealed that a senior Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) engineer compared App Store’s defenses against malicious actors to …
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Apple engineer likened App Store security to ‘butter knife in gunfight’
A senior Apple engineer compared the defences of its App Store against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents released on Thursday. In the …
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Fortnite maker and Apple duel in filings as App Store trial nears
Epic Games and Apple dueled on Thursday in legal filings ahead of a trial over whether to break the iPhone maker’s tight grip on the App Store. Epic, the maker of the massively popular Fortnite game, …
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Apple says App Store security like ‘butter knife in gunfight’
A senior Apple engineer compared the defences of its App Store against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents released on Thursday. In the …
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Apple, Epic Unveil Lines of Attack in App Store Trial
Apple Inc. plans to argue at a trial that consumers and developers will suffer if Epic Games Inc. succeeds in upending how the iPhone maker’s app marketplace is run. The games maker will counter that …
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Apple may soon open a second Apple Store in Berlin
Berliners are reporting that construction on a second Apple Store is underway in the east of the city. Eight years after opening an Apple Store on Berlin’s famous Kurfurstendamm avenue …
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Apple and Epic just laid out how they’re going to fight about Apple’s control of the App Store
have been in a legal battle since last year after Epic Games tried to avoid Apple’s 30% App Store fee through a server software update and Apple kicked it off the store. On Wednesday, Apple and Epic …
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Work Continues on Apple’s Second Berlin Store in Eastern Part of German Capital
While the German cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt have more than one Apple Store, the capital Berlin has only one – Apple Kurfürstendamm, which opened in 2013. However, that looks set …
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Apple Reveals Line of Attack for App Store Trial Against Epic
Apple Inc. plans to argue at a trial that developers and consumers will suffer if Epic Games Inc. succeeds in upending how the iPhone maker’s app marketplace is run.
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Epic v Apple discovery details ‘Project Liberty’ scheme to skirt App Store with Fortnite
Findings of fact and conclusions of law filed by Apple with the court give us details of what to expect from the trial against Epic Games.
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