A federal judge has denied Apple’s plea for an extension to produce documents concerning recent App Store changes, upholding a September 30 deadline.
A federal judge has denied Apple’s plea for an extension to produce documents concerning recent App Store changes, upholding a September 30 deadline. Read More Technology
A federal judge has deniedApple‘s request for more time to produce documents related to recentApp Storechanges, maintaining a Monday, September 30 deadline despite the Cupertino giant’s claims of an unexpectedly large document count.Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson rejected Apple’s plea for a two-week extension, describing the company’s last-minute request as “bad behaviour.” Apple now faces the challenge of reviewing and producing what it says are over 1.3 million documents by the Monday deadline.Thedocument productionis part of the ongoinglegal battlebetween Apple andEpic Games, stemming from a 2021 court order that required Apple to allow developers more freedom in collecting payments outside its App Store ecosystem.Epic is now challenging Apple’s compliance with that order, alleging “bad-faith” implementation of the required changes.Judge Hixsonexpressed scepticism about Apple’s sudden realisation of the document count, stating it was “simply not believable” that the company only became aware of the issue in the past two weeks. He suggested that with its “nearly infinite resources,” Apple could likely review the documents over a weekend if motivated to do so.As the deadline approaches, all eyes are on Apple to see how it will manage this significant document production task and what the contents might reveal about its App Store decision-making process.