Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has said that he will never agree to share revenue with Apple for external purchases linked from iOS apps, even after a U.S. appeals court ruled that Apple is entitled to charge a reasonable fee for such transactions.

Apple persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to reverse parts of a court order requiring the iPhone maker to make changes to its lucrative App Store to promote greater competition, but lost its bid to overturn a sweeping injunction.

The ruling, signed by a panel of three appellate court judges, affirmed that Apple’s initial attempts to charge a 27 percent fee to iOS developers using outside payment options “had a prohibitive effect,

A three-judge panel found that the tech giant willfully violated a 2021 antitrust injunction by imposing 27% commission and restrictive link designs for non-App Store purchases

Apple’s long-running antitrust saga with Epic Games just hit a dramatic new chapter, and Tim Sweeney is treating the moment like a victory lap.

Epic Games wins major appeals court victory over Apple on App Store rules. Learn what this means for developers and the wider tech industry.

A federal appeals court reaffirmed a ruling against Apple for non-compliance with an order aimed at opening its app store to outside payment systems. The decision impacts Apple's commission practices on rival platforms.

A federal appeals court on Thursday backed a ruling that held Apple in civil contempt for brazenly defying an order designed to open its iPhone app store to other payment systems besides its own, but the decision also reopened a door for the company to collect commission from the rival options.