US judge decertifies Apple app store class action

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Source: Reuters

October 27, 2025 8:39 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


Oct 27 (Reuters) - A federal judge decertified on Monday a class action by tens of millions of Apple (AAPL.O) customers who accused the company of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps by banning purchases outside its App Store, leading to higher prices.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, reversed her February 2024 class certification ruling, which let Apple account holders who spent $10 or more on app or in-app content within the last 17 years sue as a group.

In decertifying the class, Rogers said the plaintiffs failed to provide a model "capable of reliably showing classwide injury and damages in one stroke" by matching Apple accounts to consumers, while limiting the number of "unharmed" consumers in the class. She ruled after an expert hired by Cupertino, California-based Apple found "alarming" errors in the plaintiffs' model.

These included one that named plaintiff Robert Pepper and supposed claimant "Rob Pepper" were different people despite sharing home addresses and credit card information. They also included the lumping together of more than 40,000 payment records for people whose first name was "Kim," but who otherwise had nothing in common.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-decertifies-apple-app-store-class-action-2025-10-27/

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1. Hmmmm....expert from apple....hmmmm

did the judge get...persuaded...in some way?

[azureblue]

2. Not again

Apple has always maintained that apps on their app store must meet their standards of security and reliability.IOW, you cannot put an app on the app store that sends your address book contents to a third party, your browser history, puts trackers on your phone, or other wise infect your phone with ads or malware. without asking you for permission. This is why Apple devices are much more secure than Android / Windows based devices.

Apple has always said that if you meet Apple standards and app review, you can put your app on the store. And it's been that way for years, even back to Apple OS, and regularly, some yo yo pops up thinking they can sue Apple into breaking their security standards.

This is just a bunch of whiners mad they can't harvest data from i Phones.. Look at who is financing this lawsuit. Since the attempt has been made over and over, and failed every time, the plaintiffs are trying a new angle, which was pretty shaky from the beginning. So the judge followed the law.. Duh..

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3. I understand your point

But I also see their point in that Apple is maintaining a monopoly on iOS applications.

The App Store and the Android Play Store are monopolies for small device applications.

Neither Windows nor Apple do that for their respective PC applications. There is, very literally, no difference.

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4. I'm thinking about the "ICE Reporter" apps

Apple should not have taken those off the market. They violated no ones privacy.