The most important part of any antitrust case is market definition.
What was surprising, though - and, frankly, a much more interesting question for the Court of Appeals - is that Judge Gonzalez Rogers also issued an injunction banning Apple’s anti-steering provision while I do think Apple’s anti-steering provision is anti-competitive, this injunction is an odd outcome of this specific case, and a source of much confusion about what this decision was actually about. That is indeed what happened: Apple won, and it wasn’t particularly close Epic has already filed an appeal, but I doubt it will succeed. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed, and argued that the law was firmly on Apple’s side in App Store Arguments. The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v.
