Jason Snell blogging about the new App Store linking judgement:

Not only did Apple attempt to find ways to circumvent the injunction, but it fatally hid their discussions from the judge. While Phil Schiller gets credit from Gonzalez Rogers for sitting through the trial and reading the final decision, the judge suggests that his colleagues at Apple did not. Most troubling is the behavior of Apple’s Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, who the judge says “outright lied under oath” multiple times.

Apple will not win on appeal. They flaunted their power instead of complying. This is settled.

@manton “settled” enough for you to update your app today?

@clonezone I would if I had extra time, although it’s also a low priority change because it doesn’t add anything for existing customers. Within the next few weeks I think it’s worth doing.

@manton My point is that it isn’t actually settled yet. Apple has time to appeal the injunction.

@clonezone The decision has to go into effect while they appeal. In theory yes, it could be reversed later. It’s not really settled, but it’s settled enough for me. 🙂

@manton So, it turns out that you’re right, but only for the U.S. store. So much for reducing code complexity.