The company made the entire situation even worse when it claimed that it did not know how much profit it generates from the App Store. Things aren’t looking good for the company at the moment and Gurman says that Apple has absolutely no choice right now but to comply with the ruling.
However the company has already asked the court to pause its ruling as part of the appeals process. This isn’t going to go anywhere but it’s part of Apple’s plan to eventually try to get the courts to repeal the ruling entirely.
This isn’t the only revenue stream for Apple that has been threatened by the law recently. The courts are also trying to break up Apple and Google’s partnership for providing the latter’s search engine as the default option on the Safari browser. That will be a loss of $20 billion annually and Apple will try desperately to keep the arrangement intact.
All of this trouble after Apple was forced to allow sideloading, third party NFC payments and other external options in the EU has hit the company hard. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Apple’s walled garden is crumbling and it looks like there’s nothing that the company can do to stop it.
