EU Narrows Apple Case To Curbs on Apps Flagging Cheaper Deal
The European Union narrowed a probe into Apple’s allegedly unfair treatment of music streaming firms such as Spotify, refocusing on curbs that prevent firms from steering users away from the App Store. From a report: The European Commission on Tuesday said it’s issued a revised charge sheet known as a statement objections, two years after hitting the tech company with a broader complaint laying out how it thinks Apple abused its power as the “gatekeeper” for apps on its devices. The EU regulator said it no longer targets concerns “as to the legality” of Apple’s practice of imposing its own in-app purchase payment technology on music streaming app developers. Instead, the probe homes in “on the contractual restrictions that Apple imposed on app developers which prevent them from informing iPhone and iPad users of alternative music subscription options at lower prices outside of the app and to effectively choose those.”
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The European Union narrowed a probe into Apple’s allegedly unfair treatment of music streaming firms such as Spotify, refocusing on curbs that prevent firms from steering users away from the App Store. From a report: The European Commission on Tuesday said it’s issued a revised charge sheet known as a statement objections, two years after hitting the tech company with a broader complaint laying out how it thinks Apple abused its power as the “gatekeeper” for apps on its devices. The EU regulator said it no longer targets concerns “as to the legality” of Apple’s practice of imposing its own in-app purchase payment technology on music streaming app developers. Instead, the probe homes in “on the contractual restrictions that Apple imposed on app developers which prevent them from informing iPhone and iPad users of alternative music subscription options at lower prices outside of the app and to effectively choose those.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.