They explicitly disobeyed Apple’s legal rules; got removed just like any other developer who does, and sued them in response. It doesn’t require the judge to ha

They explicitly disobeyed Apple’s legal rules; got removed just like any other developer who does, and sued them in response. It doesn’t require the judge to have a lot of tech knowledge to roll their eyes at this obvious trolling. If you walk into a store, and refuse to pay tax on something, it’s not going to go well for you. It doesn’t matter if you think tax is unfair. That’s part of what you agree to when you enter that store and purchase a product from them. Everyone who enters that store knows they have to pay tax. We all agree to. Sometimes we agree to change those taxes when we as a society democratically agree those taxes are not fair. But not my straight up not paying them. This is called fraud, and Epic skipping out on the 30% with its back door switch could potentially be seen as such legally if a significant enough profit was made. While people do it all the time; a sensible person is not just going to skip out on paying taxes because they feel a particular tax is not fair. They can help fight to change those taxes, or the laws surrounding them; to create a more better/more balanced solution, but if a business suddenly flipped a switch that stopped them from paying taxes the IRS is going to be pounding down their doors extremely quickly. Apple is only even a monopoly within the Apple ecosystem and it is what partly defines their ecosystem. If you don’t like it, there’s a fantastic, open-source alternative! (Android) Which even has F-Droid, etc; if you feel you also really need your choice of app stores on your choice of platform. I am positive this is the logical justification the judge could easily give to rule in Apple’s favour. I’m not even sure why they are wasting the legal fees on this, when the way they went about it assured it could never succeed, legally. I highly doubt they could not make more money from outright selling the game for months? It’s not super logical to me. Sure, create a lobby with some other companies to go all in together to legally fight something like this, or something. Don’t just try to sneak around not paying fees and then sue them when they find out. Come on.