Apple-Epic App Store Legal Battle Worries US Antitrust Enforcers
- Justice Department to air concerns at appeals court hearing
- IPhone maker mostly prevailed in 2021 trial over Fortnite game
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The US Justice Department is taking a stance in the latest showdown between Apple Inc. and Epic Games Inc. over the iPhone maker’s dominance of the marketplace for mobile applications.
The world’s most valuable technology company will on Monday defend its App Store business model when Epic, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, asks the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals to find that Apple’s online marketplace policies are anticompetitive.