A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.

This means in the U.S., Apple will no longer be able to charge developers a fee when customers click on a link within their app that takes them outside the App Store for payment, resulting in a potential loss of revenue to the company.

“Apple ‘bears the burden of showing that the circumstances justify an exercise of [our] discretion,’” the court said in a filing . “After reviewing the relevant factors, we are not persuaded that a stay is appropriate,” it added.

Epic Games’ head Tim Sweeney applauded the court’s ruling and said, “The long national nightmare of Apple tax is ended,” in a post on X.

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