In her ruling banning Apple from charging a fee on purchases made exterior the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple govt “outright lied underneath oath.”
According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vp of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The decide writes that Roman lied when testifying that Apple hadn’t selected the 27 p.c quantity for its price on purchases exterior the App Store till January sixteenth, 2024.
“Contemporaneous enterprise paperwork reveal that quite the opposite, the principle elements of Apple’s plan, together with the 27 p.c fee, had been decided in July 2023,” Gonzalez Rogers says. “Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now apparent, lies.”
Gonzalez Rogers says that she is referring the case to a US legal professional for potential legal contempt proceedings in opposition to Apple and Roman.
“Apple willfully selected to not adjust to this Court’s Injunction,” Gonzalez Rogers says on the finish of the submitting (emphasis hers). “It did so with the categorical intent to create new anticompetitive boundaries which might, by design and in impact, keep a valued income stream; a income stream beforehand discovered to be anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As at all times, the cover-up made it worse. For this Court, there isn’t a second chunk on the apple.”