Apple 'willfully' disobeyed injunction over anti-steering rules, US judge says
By Alex Wilts ( May 1, 2025, 01:45 GMT | Insight) -- Apple chose not to comply with an injunction mandating changes to the tech giant’s anti-steering rules and “did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers,” a US judge said today in an order that referred the matter to a US attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate. Apple chose not to comply with an injunction mandating changes to the tech giant’s anti-steering rules and “did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers,” a US judge said today in an order that referred the matter to a US attorney for the Northern District of California for investigation of whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate....
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