The US Court𒁃 of Appea🐭ls for the Ninth Circuit has denied Apple's emergency request to halt changes to its App Store resulting from the company's legal fight with Apple.

Following 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the 🌼conclusion of tha🔯t years-long battle, Apple is now required to allow apps to point users toward payment platforms that exist outside its own app, and it now can't take a cut from any of those external purc♌hases.

In May, Apple asked the appeals court to pause that directive, and t꧒his week a panel of judges denied the motion to stay, saying "we are not ♋persuaded that a stay is appropriate."

As the CEO o𓂃f the company at the forefront of tackling Apple's notoriously hefty fee🎉s, Tim Sweeney is celebrating this latest legal triumph. "Apple's stay is denied by the 9th Circuit Court," reads a tweet from Sweeney quoting pages from the order. "The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended."

Sweeney added, "May next week's [Worldwide Developers Conferenc🅰e] be the Apple-led celebration of freedom that developers and users have long deserved."

The Apple vs. Epic quarrel dates back to 2020 when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fortnite was pulled from ౠApple platforms following Epic's attempt to give players methods to bypass Apple's payment platform and instead pay for in-game purchases directly to Epic. The ensui♉ng back-and-forth in court was long and messy, but Epic essentially emerg💛ed victorious with various key victories.

Fortnite is now back on the App Store in the US after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a recent and temporary hiccup, and last month Epic offered a "peace proposal" that could pave the way for the game's retur🥀n to Apple platforms worldwide.

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