In the latest round of disputes between Apple and Epic Games, Epic Games Game Studios applied for a new legal injunction against the 2021 ruling of the Northern District Court of California in the United States. Although Apple won the antitrust lawsuit and was forced to open up other in-app payment methods, it still charges a 27% commission from developers outside the App Store and a 12% commission from developers in the App Store Small Business program.
Epic's new argument argued that on paper developers should be able to bypass Apple's 30% cut of in-app payments through their alternative in-app payment systems, and asked Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to enforce her order. Epic argued that developers paid nearly the same amount outside the App Store, violating the court's ruling.
In addition, Apple forced developers to use "plain button styles" to point to external payment links, which are not real buttons, violating the court ruling because developers cannot point customers to other payment methods.
Epic also listed multi-platform apps like Minecraft that are not allowed to display external payment links, claiming that Apple is trying to block other payment methods by restricting and bending its AppStore policies.