"When coupled with Apple's incipient antitrust violations, these anti-steering provisions are anticompetitive and a nationwide remedy to eliminate those provisions is warranted." The judgement went the way it did, however, because "Apple's anti-steering provisions hide critical information from consumers and illegally stifle consumer choice," says the Court. (Image credit: Nina Riggio/Bloomberg via Getty Images) As the Court recognized ‘success is not illegal.’ We remain committed to ensuring the App Store is a safe and trusted marketplace that supports a thriving developer community." "Today the Court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law. "Success is not illegal" is at high risk of becoming a new Silicon Valley slogan, and Apple itself referenced the line in a short statement released after the ruling: Success is not illegal," reads the ruling. "While the Court finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinarily high profit margins, these factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. First of all, the court did not find that Apple has a monopoly: Under the Californian legal definition of such, "the court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws." The full ruling spells out exactly what the judge has-and hasn't-declared. The ruling does clarify that these will be in addition to Apple's own In-App Purchasing system, but it's crystal-clear that Apple has to allow apps to send users to third-party payment services, and has 90 days to do it. This means that, as happened in the South Korean courts last week, the court has ruled Apple cannot stop apps from pointing customers towards their own 'purchasing mechanisms'. are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from (i) including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app."
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