The legal dispute between Epic Games and apple continues After Apple filed an appeal in March this year, Epic Games submitted an appeal reply and a cross appeal response brief.
In the document, Epic Games reiterated many of the same arguments it made during the trial. The company believes that the district court "came up with the wrong answer" and made "multiple legal mistakes". Epic said Apple ignored these mistakes and "used distraction" to distract the court of appeal.
For Apple's claim that sideloading or alternative app stores will damage iPhone In terms of security, Epic Games points to the MAC again, and applications can be downloaded outside the MAC app store. Epic believes that the only consequence of supporting alternative app stores is that apple must "compete for customers".
In the briefing
Apple also claimed that the relief epic sought would undermine the security of the iPhone. But this is not true. The operating system apple uses in its MAC ("MacOS") does not include the challenges and limitations found in the iPhone operating system ("IOS"),
Apple has been touting MAC security. Apple also allows a variety of alternative payment solutions for applications that sell physical goods in the app store, which proves that using Apple's in app payment solution IAP to deal with the requirements of digital goods has no purpose to promote competition.
If epic prevails, the app store will not be dismantled. No customer will be asked to use anything Apple complains about - alternative app stores, direct download app distribution, or alternative payment solutions. The difference is that apple must compete for its customers.
The rest of the briefing overturned Apple's own appeal and pointed out the alleged mistakes made by apple and the court. People who are interested in reading Scribd.