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In her judgment prohibiting Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers states that an Apple executive “straight-out lied under oath.”
According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of financing at Apple, provided statement that was “loaded with misdirection and straight-out lies.” The judge composes that Roman lied when affirming that Apple had not chosen the 27 percent number for its cost on purchases outside the App Store up until January 16th, 2024.
“Contemporaneous organization files expose that on the contrary, the primary elements of Apple’s strategy, consisting of the 27 percent commission, were figured out in July 2023,” Gonzalez Rogers states. “Neither Apple, nor its counsel, fixed the, now apparent, lies.”
Gonzalez Rogers states that she is referring the case to a United States lawyer for possible criminal contempt procedures versus Apple and Roman.
“Apple willfully selected not to abide by this Court’s Injunction,” Gonzalez Rogers states at the end of the filing (focus hers). “It did so with the express intent to develop brand-new anticompetitive barriers which would, by style and in result, keep a valued income stream; an income stream formerly discovered to be anticompetitive. That it believed this Court would endure such insubordination was a gross mistake. As constantly, the cover-up made it even worse. For this Court, there is no 2nd bite at the apple.”
