Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a new permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case on Friday morning, handing a major setback to Apple’s App Store model.
Under the new order, Apple is:
permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.
For years, Apple and Epic Games (which makes Fortnite) have been at odds over the transaction-fee system in the iOS App Store, which Apple sees as a necessary operating…