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EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 from informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services available outside of the app (‘anti-steering provisions'). This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice to see a reasonably sized fine. In the US it would be like 5 million and they'd spend 10 times that fighting it in court and still not affect their profits for the month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's only reasonable if they earned 1.8 billion or less from it.

Otherwise they'll just do it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not necessarily, it could be that if they put the work into something else instead they would've made more when you account for the fine, so it could still not be worth it compared to alternatives.