> On the counterclaim, in favor of Apple on the counterclaim for breach of contract. Epic Games shall pay (1) damages in an amount equal to (i) 30% of the $12,167,719 in revenue Epic Games collected from users in the Fortnite app on iOS through Epic Direct Payment between August and October 2020, plus (ii) 30% of any such revenue Epic Games collected from November 1, 2020 through the date of judgment, and interest according to law.
What do you think is unjustified here? The 30% is literally the money they collected while breaching their contract, that was money Epic agreed to pay Apple and Apple is rightfully owed.
The big picture here is that Epic lost the case - they were ruled to be in clear breach of contract and Apple was determined to not have acted anticompetitively except in one specific respect (the anti-steering clause).
Epic gets no third party App Store - meaning ”platform” app stores are not anticompetitive, a ruling that 30% app store fees are not anticompetitive, a ruling that Epic still owes the money during the time when they were knowingly and willfully breaching their contract, a ruling that they have to pay apple’s lawyers for the frivolous suit, and no requirement for Apple to reinstate Epic’s account after all these shenanigans.
Oh yeah and anti-steering clauses are probably illegal. Big win for Epic there.
Despite newspapers racing to frame this as a big loss for Apple, it’s really Epic who lost here (and that’s why they get to pay the lawyers, pay the breach of contract, etc). It’s completely consistent with the rest of the ruling, because that’s what happens when you lose a suit.
> On the counterclaim, in favor of Apple on the counterclaim for breach of contract. Epic Games shall pay (1) damages in an amount equal to (i) 30% of the $12,167,719 in revenue Epic Games collected from users in the Fortnite app on iOS through Epic Direct Payment between August and October 2020, plus (ii) 30% of any such revenue Epic Games collected from November 1, 2020 through the date of judgment, and interest according to law.