Apple can't delay costly court-ordered app store change beyond December

Apple said it will ask the federal appeals court in San Francisco to put Gonzales Rogers's order on hold

Apple Inc. failed to persuade a federal judge to push back a December deadline to change the lucrative business model for its App Store while the iPhone maker’s legal fight with Epic Games Inc. is appealed. 

Unless the iPhone maker wins a reprieve from an appeals court, it will soon have to start allowing developers to steer customers to payment methods outside the