The story so far

• Epic Games introduced its own in-app payment system on iPhone which takes a 3% cut of revenue, the same as on Android, Windows, and MacOS
• This bypassed the App Store, and denied Apple its 30% commission cut of revenue
• This was a blatant breach of App Store terms & conditions
• Apple responded by throwing the company off the App Store
• The two companies went to court in the US
• The US court told Epic that, no, Apple did not operate a monopoly according to famously narrow US antitrust precedent
• The US court told Apple that, yes, it must allow app sales outside the App Store
• Both sides appealed the parts of the ruling they didn’t like
• The Republican stacked US Supreme Court declined to hear either appeal
• Meantime, the EU Digital Markets Act also required third-party app stores
• Apple agreed to comply in both the US and EU the EU
• But it imposed terms which have been described as malicious compliance

Fixed that for you, 9-5 Mac.