The Court finds Apple, an executive, deceived under an oath in the test for Epic Games

Apple A deliberately disturbed order of 2021, which was released from the Epic Games case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a court filing On Wednesday.

She wrote that Apple Finance Vice President Alex Roman “just lied” in court of when Apple decided to impose a 27% fee on some purchases related to his app store.

“Neither Apple nor his lawyer have corrected, now obvious, lying,” Rogers wrote, saying that Apple “has accepted the lies and a misconception of this court.”

Rogers added that she had directed the issue of US lawyers to investigate whether to continue the criminal contempt proceedings of both Roman and Apple.

The solution is a striking rejection of Apple’s behavior in the Epic Games test, which was resolved in 2021 and appealed in 2023.

While Apple won the greater part of the number in the original test, Epic Games won Some discounts stored in an order of 180 pagesS Rogers originally ordered the company to make changes to its app store, allowing software developers to contact their Websites inside the iPhone apps for customers to make purchases Outside Apple’s ecosystem.

On Wednesday, Rogers accused Apple of deliberately trying to violate her decision, and she kept contempt of the company.

Rogers writes that it is expected, according to their decision that these types of purchases outside the app will not have an Apple committee. But Apple introduced new policies in 2024, which collected a 27% commission of some of these purchases, only a slight discount of 30% Apple usually collects from purchases in the app. Rogers said almost every Apple solution regarding application link policies is anticonutrous.

Rogers writes that Apple has presented evidence to the court of internal discussions regarding its rule, which is “adapted for court disputes” instead of the company’s actual internal discussions.

“Unlike Apple’s initial testimony in court, modern business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what he was doing and at every turn they chose the most anti-competitive version,” Rogers wrote. “To hide the truth, the Vice President of Finance, Alex Roman, frankly lied to the oath.”

Rogers also accuses Apple of withholding June 2023 meeting, including CEO Tim Cook on how they would comply with the court order in 2021. Rogers said Apple hid the existence of the court by 2025. She also said that Apple should not be alleged with privacy, so as not to share the privacy.

Apple had a “desire to conceal the real process of Apple decision -making, especially when these decisions included senior Apple leaders,” Rogers wrote.

Former Apple Senior Vice President and current associate Phil Schiller did not want Apple to take a web link commission, but Cook ignores it, Rogers said.

“Cook chose badly,” Rogers writes.

The judge ordered, in force immediately, so that Apple could stop imposing its commissions on purchases made for iPhone applications via web links inside an application. She also ordered Apple to pay Epic Games’s lawyer fees on this specific issue.

“This is an order, not negotiations. There are no exceedances made after a party deliberately neglects the court order,” Rogers wrote.

Roman did not immediately answer a message.

“We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court order and we will appeal,” an Apple spokesman said in a statement.

“This is a huge victory for the developers, and this means that all developers can offer their own payment service service side by side with Apple’s payment service,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweey to call with reporters on Wednesday. “This forces Apple to compete. This is what we wanted all the time.”

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