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With its lawsuit against Apple, the Justice Department focuses on outdated issues and irrelevant points, missing an opportunity to address more pressing concerns, Bloomberg reported. According to Bloomberg, despite the friendly image that Apple Inc. cultivates, it’s a hard-driving company behind the scenes. Just ask the many suppliers that Apple has abruptly dropped or the app developers it has put
The U.S. accused Apple of monopolizing the smartphone market in a landmark antitrust lawsuit that threatens to disrupt the tech giant’s business model and how millions of consumers use their iPhones, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them form informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services available outside the app (‘anti-steering provisions’). This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.
Brussels will hit tech giant Apple with a €500 million fine for allegedly breaking EU law over access to its music streaming services, the Financial Times reported Sunday, according to Politico. The fine would be the EU’s first ever against Apple and is expected to be announced early next month, according to the FT report. It is the result of
The European Commission adopted decisions closing four market investigations that were launched on 5 September 2023 under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), finding that Apple and Microsoft should not be designated as gatekeepers for the following core platform services: Apple’s messaging service iMessage, Microsoft’s online search engine Bing, web browser Edge, and online advertising service Microsoft Advertising. The decisions concluded
To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple’s other operating systems more open, ArsTechnica reported. The changes are far-reaching and touch many parts of the user experience on the iPhone. They’ll be coming as part of iOS 17.4 in March. Apple will introduce “new APIs and tools that enable developers to offer
Apple will have to comply with a sweeping injunction reshaping its relationship with mobile app developers and potentially billions of dollars in app-related sales, after the US Supreme Court declined to review the lower court’s order on Tuesday, CNN reported. Apple estimated in 2022 that developers generated $1.1 trillion in the App Store that year, making the high court’s decision