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Apple has filed for an appeal of the ruling in its major trial against Epic. While the company went so far as to call the original ruling a "resounding victory," the judge found that Apple violated California’s anti-steering rules and demanded that Apple let developers link to outside payment systems.
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
Apple never banned dating app Grindr, as one viral tweet shared to Facebook claims.
If this proposal was supposed to alleviate the scrutiny facing the App Store, it completely misses the point.
Apple has finally agreed to allow app developers to accept payments outside the app store and interact directly with customers about the in-app purchases.