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Epic slams Apple's 'restrictive' contracts with app developers in first day of Australian lawsuit

By Saloni Sinha ( March 18, 2024, 08:21 GMT | Insight) -- Apple engages in explicitly restrictive conduct by imposing mandatory terms and forcing a “relationship of agency” with application developers, an Australian court heard in the first day of a 16-week trial in which Epic Games is targeting both Apple and Google. Appearing in the Federal Court of Australia, the lawyer representing Epic said that Apple’s contracts with developers are restrictive and its 30 percent commissions are arbitrary and untethered from market pressures.Apple engages in explicitly restrictive conduct by imposing mandatory terms and forcing a “relationship of agency” with application developers, an Australian court heard in the first day of a 16-week trial in which Epic Games is targeting both Apple and Google....

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