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This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 1st, 2025.

We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand.

Today, Sean Hollister tells us about MapTech in Japan and Apple takes a loss in court.

Yeah, they do.

I'm Jason Howell.

I'm going to do it now.

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

Federal judge has strongly criticized Apple for knowingly and willfully violating a 2021 court order that stemmed from the Epic Games trial. Judge Yvonne

Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple and its VP of Finance, Alex Roman, misled the court by lying

under oath about when and how the company chose to impose a 27% fee on purchases made outside its app store.

Now, Roman had falsely testified that the decision to impose that fee was made in early 2024

as a straightforward response to the court's injunction and that the company had no intention

to circumvent that injunction and that the company had no intention to circumvent that

injunction. However, internal business documents that were presented in the case show how Apple

executives, including CEO Tim Cook, purposefully chose that policy much earlier in June 2023 as a way

to preserve Apple's revenues from app commissions while also

technically allowing external payment links. Now, this is a major victory for app developers and,

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