Apple wins in court

[Cmaier]

Apple won two important motions in a consumer class action case re: the app store. First, the judge ruled in their favor on a Daubert motion, which is a motion attacking the credentials and methodology of an expert. She was pretty brutal about the expert, who, among other things, treated 40,000 people with first name “Kim” as one individual, and determined that there were almost 2 million App store customers in an alaskan town with a couple hundred residents. (Her Order was fun reading, for attorneys at least)

Then she decertified the class, as a result. This is usually the death knell for these sorts of lawsuits. Note that it’s the same judge who ruled against Apple in the Epic case.

U.S. Judge reverses App Store class action certification - 9to5Mac

A U.S. Judge has reversed her own ruling that allowed a class action accusing Apple of monopolizing the iPhone app market to proceed.

9to5mac.com