Apple seeks Steam developer’s documents to fight consumer lawsuit
Apple has asked a judge to force video game distributor Valve to disclose business records that the Cupertino Colossus says it needs to battle an antitrust class-action lawsuit claiming it drives up app prices.
Apple’s federal court filing in Seattle on Tuesday said Valve, developer of the digital distribution service Steam, has refused to provide sales and commission data that are “core” to its defense in the consumer lawsuit.
The records, according to Cupertino, California-based Apple, will show how its App Store competes with competing gaming services and other platforms.
A federal judge in February said tens of millions of Apple customers could band together as a class to press claims that the company’s App Store practices have caused consumers to pay artificially higher prices.
Apple has denied the allegations and has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to undo the lower court’s class certification order. The plaintiffs’ lawyers have estimated that class-wide damages reach billions of dollars.
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s App Store practices have not caused consumers to pay artificially higher prices.
How much did it cost developers to have their apps burned onto CDs, boxed, shipped, displayed on store shelves prior to Apple remaking the world for the better for umpteenth time? Apple incurs costs to store, review, organize, surface, and distribute apps to over one billion users. — MacDailyNews, June 10, 2022
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