[rickycook]

mentioned and expanded on in a parent comment, but the important part of the article related to that is right at the bottom:

“The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year revived the lawsuit, deciding that Apple was a distributor that sold iPhone apps directly to consumers.”

the question is whether apple sells the apps, or the developer sells the apps.

[mitchty]

Right but that seems to be the ultimate thing at question here not? Whether the ninth circuit's decision is correct.

I'll have to wait for this week in law to cover the case from a legal perspective, they're lawyers so they tend to have a more lawyery view of things and bring on experts in the field. There tends to be more nuance than most engineers tend to bring in "apple charging 30% is immoral" arguments.