For the legal tug of war with apple, Epic Games has just submitted a new briefing, claiming that Apple's statement not only misled the court, but also made mistakes in the judge's understanding of the market** In an appeal response briefing submitted on Wednesday, Epic Games stressed that the U.S. District Court "made a number of legal errors in rejecting epic's Sherman Antitrust claim".
In the initial lawsuit, epic claimed that Apple Blocking access to the app store violates the Antitrust Act. Apple's free market rules and the app store are abused as one aspect of the free market rules.
On the court side, Epic Games claimed that the judge made a mistake in maintaining Apple's restrictive policy: "the court was aware of the significant impact of anti competition, but mistakenly believed that there was no reason to promote competition and ignored the factual findings of epic's establishment of less restrictive alternatives".
As for the so-called argument that "it will weaken Apple's IOS security", epic takes the Mac platform as an example. Even if the latter does not have the same restrictions as IOS, it still has quite good security. However, during the trial, Apple also made it clear that the level of anti malware on MacOS was not enough.
It is reported that after a long trial, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, a judge of the U.S. District Court, made a more favorable ruling for apple in September 2021, but the two companies appealed on other aspects.
In a briefing submitted to the court in March, apple argued that Epic Games's initial lawsuit was seriously flawed and that the company failed to prove Apple's misconduct.