Apple not a monopoly but must allow alternate payment methods for apps, judge rules

As a result of a ruling in the Epic versus Apple legal battle, Apple must allow developers to include alternate purchase links in apps on the App Store — but Apple prevailed in most other counts.A still from Epic's parody of Apple's '1984' Super Bowl commercialWhile the injunction by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers did not demand that Apple make alternative App Stores mandatory, the ruling is not what one would call a complete win for Apple. Read more...