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Apple face a looming deadline to make what it says are more than 1 million documents touch to recent App Store changes .
On Friday , Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the companionship ’s attempt to pass that deadline , key out the petition as “ unsound behavior . ”So Apple ’s deadline is still Monday , September 30 : “ It ’s up to Apple to figure out how to foregather the deadline , but Monday is indeed the deadline . ”
This is just the latest chapter in the ongoing sound dispute between Apple and Fortnite - maker Epic Games , which has been fighting Apple ’s App Store rules . While Apple was mostly successful in U.S. district court , the court did tell the company to loosen its App Store rules , giving developers more freedom to pile up payments and subscription fee without using Apple ’s in - app payment platform .
This promptedApple to wind out App Store changes in January . However , with Apple still collecting a ( small ) commission on those payment , Epic is nowchallenging the ship’s company over what it calls “ regretful - faith ” compliance .
In August , a judgedirected Appleto produce all documents related to how it adjudicate on the new App Store rules . But on Thursday , Apple said Epic ’s lookup full term surfaced more than doubly as many document as look , so the companyneeded two more weeksto review what turn out to be “ north of 1.3 million documents . ”
Hixson — who ’s in charge of the document breakthrough process — not only denied Apple ’s asking for an extension but also wrote that “ the way Apple announced out of the blue four days before the substantial completion deadline that it would not make that deadline because of a written document count that it had surely been aware of for weeks hardly create the feeling that Apple is deport responsibly . ”
Hixson also suggested that Apple had plenty of time to collect and retrospect the documents . Indeed , with its “ about numberless resource , ” he argued it “ could probably look back that many text file in a weekend . ”
