Y Combinator has submitted a short amicus In the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the epic games, arguing that the application store has stifled starting innovation.
We have reached legal repetitions for YC and Apple for comments.
The short comes during the legal dispute. Epic Games for the first time filed an antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone Maker in 2020, in protest of Apple, receiving a 30% remuneration for each purchase on the App Store, as well as in -game markets. Epic claims in its suit that Apple has illegally banned developers from telling customers the alternatives to the App Store.
One judge ordered Apple to terminate its retirement policy, but instead, the company implemented a connection program that allowed developers to connect to alternative payment methods, with the App Store receiving a 27%remuneration.
In another complaint, EPIC accused Apple of violating the court’s order against anti-dismissal and in April, the judge agreed, resulting in Apple’s order to stop imposing restrictions on alternative payment solutions and collecting payments from such methods.
Apple is attractive this decision, and for this Y Combinator, A supporter of the epic gamesHe has deposited this short short to support Epic Games. Y Combinator asks the court to refuse Apple’s appeal.
“Y Combinator-and the largest business capital community-have long been hesitant to support businesses based on applications that were bad investments due to apple tax,” the Combinator writes in his testimony. “A 30% share of revenue can easily be the difference between a company that can afford to escalate, hire new employees and reinstall its product and the one that is constantly struggling to stay in life.”
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With the current decision – that Apple should allow developers to provide transparent alternative payment options – the starting investor wrote: “For the first time in almost two decades, Y Combinator can seriously consider investing in innovative businesses that would have been impossible in the past because of the” tax “tax. Apple’s fear refers to the fees received by Apple from the App Store.
He continued to say that Apple’s tax was a “deep and often insurmountable obstacle to the entry that stifles competition and innovation at its source” and that the court must refuse Apple’s appeal and allow the rule to stand against. The next argument is due to be held on October 21.
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