Despite calling it a big victory, Apple wasn’t at all happy that in the Epic Games lawsuit after banning Fortnite from the App Store included that the App Store business model was questioned on record and the original court agreed to that.

Since then there has been a series of appeals where Apple grinded the USA’s legal system to have that verdict overruled.

Of course, 30% of everything paid via the App Store means revenues for Apple, which the Cupertino giant has justified as it funds most of the App Store infrastructure, benefits for developers long-term and even funds free app development courses.

The latest on this is that Apple has requested help from the Supreme Court Of The United State as their latest and last hope to have the verdict overruled, including Apple being legally unable to force app developers to use the App Store payment API.

Reuters (and later Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney) learned that Apple went on direct accusation to the Ninth Appeal Circuit on going overreaching on having a nationwide injunction on how the payment API  is implemented.

“The district court issued a sweeping injunction prohibiting Apple from enforcing its anti-steering rules against all developers of iOS apps offered for distribution in the United States, even though the sole named plaintiff (Epic Games, Inc.) did not seek or obtain class certification, and did not prove that an injunction running in favor of non-parties was necessary to make it whole.”

Under the United States’s Legal system, this is the last chance of Apple to have the ruling removed, but probably it is just delaying the inevitable as probably both EU and United States adopt ruling that prevents Google, Microsoft and Apple to force service providers and app developers using specific payments API and hence, not paying royalties.