Apple successfully appealed the antitrust ruling in Brazil, which would have forced Cupertino to offer app sideloading and third-party app payment options on the App Store for local iOS users. A federal judge has quashed Brazilian regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica) and its requests against Apple’s anti-competitive practices, finding the regulator’s demands “disproportionate and unnecessary.”
Under the demands cited last month, Apple would have 20 days to comply with the Brazilian regulator’s requests or face a fine of $43,000 per day. The regulator also demanded that Apple either allow developers to link to external websites for payments, or require all developers to handle these payments themselves.
Apple has previously made similar changes to its app downloads and payment options in the US, EU, South Korea and Japan. CADE can now appeal the ruling and is expected to do so immediately, meaning this is certainly not the last case in this ongoing legal battle.
Source (in Portuguese)