Apple: “Hundreds of millions to billions” lost without App Store commissions

But Apple is moving quickly to shut the external payments door opened by last week's ruling that the company willfully failed to comply with court orders regarding anticompetitive behavior. A certificate (PDF) accompanying the emergency filing states that the order "fundamentally changes Apple's business and creates destabilizing effects" for App Store customers. In her ruling (PDF), Gonzalez Rogers described Apple as conducting an "obvious cover-up" and said that Apple "at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option." Apple had already altered its App Review Guidelines to comply with Gonzalez Rogers' ruling. Before this, under a 2021 injunction at issue in recent filings, Apple charged a 12 to 27 percent commission on external payments, with significant filing and auditing requirements.