Apple loses appeal bid, allowing consumer class action lawsuit

Apple has failed to convince a U.S. appeals court to consider blocking a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of monopolizing the iPhone app market and artificially maintaining high prices for tens of millions of customers.

Mike Scarcella for Reuters:
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected, turning over a new leaf, Apple’s bid for a pretrial appeal after a California federal judge in February allowed consumers to unite to seek billions of dollars in alleged damages.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers certified a class of consumers who spent at least $10 on Apple apps or in-app purchases since 2008. The lawsuit, filed in 2011, accuses Apple of violating U.S. antitrust law by too strictly limiting how customers can download applications.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. An appeals court panel rejected Apple’s appeal without a hearing.

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MacDailyNews Take: Compensation?

How much did it cost developers to burn their applications to CDs, box them, ship them, and display them on store shelves before Apple changed the world for the better yet again? Apple incurs the costs of storing, viewing, organizing, sharing, and distributing applications to more than one billion users. – MacDailyNews, June 10, 2022

The average price of an app in the Apple App Store in January 2024 is 79 cents.
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