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Epic Games asked a US federal judge to hold Apple in contempt of court over its failure to properly comply with an order to open its App Store to outside payment options.

Epic Games Inc. asked a federal judge to hold Apple Inc. in contempt of court over its failure to properly comply with a court order to open its App Store to outside payment options.

That followed the US Supreme Court’s refusal in January to wade into a three-year feud between the maker of the popularApple followed through with that, but Epic said in a court filing Wednesday that the technology giant made the links “commercially unusable” by imposing various fees and rules.“Apple’s new scheme so pervasively taxes, regulates, restricts and burdens in-app links directing users to alternative purchasing mechanisms on a developer’s website,” Epic’s lawyers wrote in the filing.

“Apple’s goal is clear: to prevent purchasing alternatives from constraining the supracompetitive fees it collects on purchases of digital goods and services,” according to the filing.Apple said regulating the external links is necessary to “protect user privacy and security, maintain the integrity of Apple’s ecosystem, promote the flow of information, avoid user confusion, and enable efficient review of developers’ apps by App Review.

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