Category: App Store (Apple)
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Apple says software pirate already reached out to build alternative app store while EU governments, users are frightened
Apple’s new whitepaper on compliance with the Digital Markets Act primarily seeks to justify the company’s narrow and self-serving interpretation of the DMA. That said, the DMA risks becoming a huge embarrassment for the EU because (absent an amendment) it will fail to bring about competition and benefit only controversial and bad actors.
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EU Commission confirms Apple web apps inquiry but EU users won’t get home-screen web apps back before 2030s if ever
The European Commission has confirmed reports that it sent out questionnaires to market participants regarding Apple’s decision to disable progressive web apps in the EU. This article analyzes Apple’s likely defense strategy.
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7 changes to patch the EU’s Digital Markets Act and make open app markets a reality over Apple’s belligerent stance
In this article, games fray proposes a set of measures that would up the ante for Apple’s efforts to open up iOS app distribution in the EU.
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Apple’s EU app rules comply with Digital Markets Act unless judges take purposive interpretation to higher level
Apple has a resaonable argument that it complies with the EU’s Digital Markets Act in a literal sense.Only a teleological (or purposive) interpretation of the DMA poses a risk to Apple, but the legal and factual hurdles are high.
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Apple appeals certification of consumer class action over App Store cut; Epic Games opposes recovery of $73M fees
A couple of filings were made late on Friday in two App Store antitrust cases: Apple is appealing the certification of a consumer class challenging the 30% cut, and Epic Game opposes Apple’s demand for a $73M recovery of attorneys’ fees.
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Apple effectively kills numerous browser games in the EU: unprecedented slap in the face of tech regulation
The latest iOS beta version shows that Apple is prepared to flip the bird to the institutions of the Europan Union in response to an attempt to better regulate digital markets.
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Disney-Epic Games alliance has important past and current connections with Apple, Google app store fights
App store antitrust matters are not mentioned in the announcement of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, but there are important implications, some of which are not merely speculative.
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U.S. court certifies 12-year-old consumer class-action claiming Apple’s standard App Store tax should be < 14%, not 30%
A 2011 consumer class-action lawsuit over Apple’s App Store that says a competitive commission would have been 13.69% instead of 30% has finally reached the point of class certification, but significant hurdles remain.
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Meta CEO Zuckerberg confirms Apple’s rules in response to EU DMA discourage creation of alternative iOS app stores
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirms what others have said: Apple’s new EU rules generally don’t create an opportunity for alternative app stores.
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Epic Games formally tells U.S. court Apple isn’t complying with App Store injunction, announces contempt motion
Context: On January 16, 2024, Epic Games’ 2021 anti-anti-steering injunction under California law (but of nationwide scope and to the benefit of all app makers in the U.S.) entered into force after the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the matter (games fray article). Within hours, Apple filed an obviously prepared notice…