Apple to Face Antitrust Lawsuit by Rival Excluded From App Store

Apple Inc. lost its bid to exit antitrust litigation over claims it bans competing app distribution platforms from the iOS App Store, when a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., ruled that allegations of increasingly aggressive policies brought the case within the statute of limitations.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers let part of the lawsuit move forward Thursday, saying it’s plausible the four-year filing window was propped open by software changes in 2018 and 2019 that transformed what had been hurdles for competing platforms like the Cydia App Store into an outright ban.

“Within a year from this final exclusion, plaintiff brought ...