In a new court document, Epic Games challenged Apple's position that the third-party application mall would harm iPhone security Taking Apple's MacOS as an example, the game company pointed out that the process of "sideloading" applications - that is, installing applications outside Apple's own App Store - is not necessarily the threat described by apple.
Epic pointed out that Apple Your Mac doesn't have iPhone The kind of restriction in the operating system IOS, but Apple boasts that the operating system MacOS used in MAC computers is very safe.
The developers of Fort night, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, put forward these and other views in their latest briefing. These views relate to their ongoing legal struggle with apple over its control over the app store.
Epic Games hopes to get the right to provide "Fortress night" to iPhone users outside the app store, or at least use its own payment processing system, so that it can no longer Commission Apple pay for its ability to provide software to iPhone users.
Last September, a California judge ruled in the case of Epic Games v. Apple district court that Apple had no monopoly in the relevant market - digital mobile game transactions. However, the court ruled that Apple could not prohibit developers from adding alternative payment links to their applications, which pointed to other payment methods other than Apple's app store based monetization system. Although Apple largely touted the ruling as a victory, both sides appealed the ruling because Epic Games hopes to win the right to publish apps through its own game store again, and apple doesn't want developers to propose other payment methods for their users.
On Wednesday local time, after Apple appealed the decision of the district court, epic submitted its defense of appeal and defense of cross appeal.
The game maker pointed out in the new document that the lower court was led by apple on many issues and reached wrong conclusions. Many of its recommendations relate to how the district court interprets the law. In addition, it also pointed out that Microsoft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the attorneys general of 34 states and the District of Columbia, which are now important allies of epic, have submitted briefings in support of the epic case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
However, a larger view of epic is related to the security mode of MAC and its differences from iPhone. Epic table so, if Apple can allow sidetracking on MAC devices and still says these computers are secure, then it can certainly do the same for the iPhone.
Epic wrote in the new document: "for MacOS, apple relies on the security measures imposed by the operating system rather than the app store and the 'notarization' program that scans applications and returns them to developers for distribution."
Then, epic pointed out Apple's own marketing example of Mac computer security. The latter said that "applications from the app store and the Internet" can be installed on it without worry.
Apple opposes the same model on the iPhone because it needs to redesign the way its software works, including what it says is reducing the security of end users.
With the continuous progress of app store legislation against technology giants in Congress, Apple has been warning about being forced to open the iPhone to third-party app stores. Apple said that mandatory sideloading did not comply with its provisions to support consumer privacy protection.
In a document released by apple that further elaborated on the issue, it said that allowing sideloading could endanger users' most sensitive and private information.
"Direct download and third-party app store support for sideloading will weaken the privacy and security measures that make the iPhone so secure and expose users to serious security risks," the document said In addition, Apple also pointed out that Google's Android operating system is an example of this risk. It pointed out that the malware infection rate of Android devices in the past four years is 15 to 47 times that of iPhone.
While releasing the new documents, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, also accepted an interview with the financial times. He continued to scold apple for its so-called anti competitive behavior. Sweeney said that even if Apple won the hardware market fairly, it should not be allowed to use this position to gain an unfair advantage over competitors and other markets.