Apple, and iOS and the app store in particular, exemplify the closed model Sweeney so often rails against. If use an Apple PC, you can only use Apple approved software,” Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, told The Post. On Aug. 11, two days before Epic filed its suit against Apple, a federal appeals court reversed Koh’s decision. AD“If Apple can characterize this as, ‘Look, this is just the price we charge for access to the app store. “Antitrust is useful for someone like Epic because they can literally demand a day in court,” said Picker.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2020 17:37 UTC