They’ve got until December 9th to comply.
Naturally, court cases aren’t an absolutely final thing; there are plenty of mechanisms to draw things out, if you’ve got the money. In the Apple v Epic Games case, the decision… probably didn’t make Apple too happy. So they filed a stay on the injunction, which gave them 90-days from the decision to comply. It read:
Apple Inc. […] are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from (i) including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.
Apple naturally requested a stay on this order, alongside their attorney, Mark Perry, stating the following:
It’s going to take months to figure out the engineering, economic, business, and other issues. It is exceedingly complicated. There have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect children, to protect developers, to protect consumers, to protect Apple. And they have to be written into guidelines that can be explained and enforced and applied.
Attorney Mark Perry, on behalf of Apple
Epic’s attorney Gary Bornstein countered with the assertion that it was a delaying tactic.
Apple does nothing unless it is forced to do it.
Gary Bornstein
And it seems Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agrees. As she said:
You haven’t asked for additional time. You’ve asked for an injunction which would effectively take years. You asked for an across-the-board stay which could take three, four, five years.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Time’s ticking down until December 9th, the date on which Apple must comply. They’ve got a little less than a month left to do so.
Source: PC Gamer
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