Apple will have to use external payments options on App Store by December 9

Following Apple's victory in its case against Epic Games, the tech giant filed an appeal, requesting from court to delay the implementation of the new rules in the App Store. Judge Gonzalez Rogers' decision forces Apple to allow developers to add in-app links to outside websites, paving the way for alternate payment options that do not require developers to use the in-app purchase system.

Apple's appeal, however, has been declined and the company must comply with this order by the 9th of December. “Apple’s motion is based on a selective reading of this Court’s findings and ignores all of the findings which supported the injunction,” Judge Gonzalez Rogers said in her new order.

Apple requested that it needed more time to implement the changes but Judge Gonzalez Roger accused Apple of wanting “an open-ended stay with no requirement that it make any effort to comply,” and suggested that “Apple has provided no credible reason for the Court to believe that the injunction would cause the professed devastation.”

She also said that “In short, Apple’s motion is based on a selective reading of this Court’s findings and ignores all of the findings which supported the injunction, namely incipient antitrust conduct including supercompetitive commission rates resulting in extraordinarily high operating margins and which have not been correlated to the value of its intellectual property,” calling the company’s motion “fundamentally flawed.”

The judge accused the company of seeking a way to postpone adjustments for up to five years by requesting a stay rather than requesting a delay for the purpose of implementing changes. She also said that “even if additional time was warranted to comply with the limited injunction, Apple did not request additional time other than ten days to appeal this ruling. Thus, the Court does not consider the option of additional time, other than the requested ten days.”