Apple on Tuesday asked a London tribunal to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at around one billion dollars brought on behalf of more than one thousand, five hundred app developers over its App Store fees.
The case, worth up to nine hundred and ninety-eight million dollars and one of several faced by the tech giant in the United Kingdom, alleges Apple charged third-party developers unfair commissions of up to thirty percent on purchases of apps or other content.
Sean Ennis, a competition law professor and a former economist at the OECD, is spearheading the case which was filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) last year and his lawyers say Apple has abused its dominant position in the market for the distribution of apps on its devices and are seeking damages for UK-based developers.
Apple, however, says eighty-five percent of developers on its App Store do not pay any commission at all and is asking the CAT to throw out the case which its lawyers argue is “unsustainable”.
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