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Judge takes a bite out of Apple

A US judge has dealt a blow to one of Apple’s “most lucrative businesses”, says Simon Duke in The Times. Epic, the developer of the hit videogame, had accused Apple of “acting as a monopoly” by “forcing users to pay for in-app purchases [in the Epic app] through the iPhone maker’s payment system” and levying a fee of up to 30% of the sale.

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