As you probably already know, a monopoly case has recently been reopened due to the commissions that Apple currently takes for each sale of applications or services from the App Store and iTunes, as we commented here. A few hours ago, has begun the trial by the Supreme Court of the United States, where Apple had to declare.
However, contrary to what many expected, although it is true that an official and final response from the US government is not expected until June of next year, some details have already been known, and apparently Everything points to the users who win and not the signature.
And it is that, apparently, stop the team of Reuters, who are in charge of slightly filtering the case, have been present in this first trial against Apple, so they are one of the few who can speak first about what happened in court, but apparently, they have already advanced us that things are not going quite well for Apple, as the trial has begun to get complicated.
Mainly, this is because the court sees Apple as a distributor of online applications and services, and not as an intermediary agent between the developers and users of their products, which would mean that the firm I could not continue to charge such high commissions for each sale, and if so, should exist any other alternative in order to be able to download the services of the App Store and iTunes, that is, without being limited to your own store.
In this way, although as we mentioned for a few months we will most likely not see any direct sentences, The truth is that things are not looking quite good for Apple this time, and we'll see how everything finally ends. In addition, in the event that this happens, we should also see other similar cases such as eBay or Amazon, whose task is relatively similar in this regard.
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- Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) November 26, 2018