By John Moltz
May 9, 2025 2:00 PM PT
This Week in Apple: An unappealing appeal

Apple appeals the ruling against it, Eddy Cue testifies, and Apple puts the iPhone release schedule on shuffle.
This whole court is out of order!
As was foretold in prophecy (the kind of prophecy where Apple just tells us it’s going to do something), Apple has officially appealed U.S. District Court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s ruling against its anti-steering policy. After taking the weekend to slam the door to its room, sob into its pillow, and draw buck teeth and acne on pictures of Judge Gonzalez Rogers, Apple came to work on Monday with its game face back on.
“Apple just appealed the court ruling that forced big App Store change”
If you are an Apple pundit, please consider that there might be enough time to go get a law degree and then come back and talk about this case with some level of actual expertise.
I do not have a law degree but I do have a degree in Apple (disclaimer: not an actual degree — I checked, it’s not even an online degree) and this appeal seem ill-advised from a PR perspective at the very least.…