{"id":11247,"date":"2021-06-10T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/europe-charges-apple-with-antitrust-breach-citing-spotify-app-store-complaint\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:49:02","slug":"europe-charges-apple-with-antitrust-breach-citing-spotify-app-store-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/europe-charges-apple-with-antitrust-breach-citing-spotify-app-store-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach, citing Spotify App Store complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has issued a formal \u2018statement of objections\u2019 against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple\u2019s app store rules distort competition in the market for music streaming services by raising the costs of competing music streaming app developers. Apple has a period of 12 weeks to respond to the preliminary charges. The Commission begun investigating competition concerns related to iOS App Store (and also Apple Pay) last summer. But today\u2019s charges relate only to music streaming apps, and the App Store\u2019s role as a gatekeeper for such apps to access iOS users. This is also a market where Apple competes, with its eponymous offering (Apple Music). \u201cThe Commission takes issue with the mandatory use of Apple\u2019s own in-app purchase mechanism imposed on music streaming app developers to distribute their apps via Apple\u2019s App Store,\u201d it wrote. \u201cThe Commission is also concerned that Apple applies certain restrictions on app developers preventing them from informing iPhone and iPad users of alternative, cheaper purchasing possibilities.\u201d The statement of objections focuses on two rules that Apple imposes in its agreements with music streaming app developers: Namely what the Commission said is a \u201cmandatory\u201d requirement to use Apple\u2019s proprietary in-app purchase system (IAP) to distribute paid digital content (with the Commission stating that Apple charges a 30% commission fee on all such subscriptions bought via IAP); and \u2018anti-steering provisions\u2018 which limit the ability of developers to inform users of alternative purchasing options. \u201cThe Commission\u2019s investigation showed that most streaming providers passed&#8230; Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/IrL4TSVCcgc\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has issued a formal \u2018statement of objections\u2019 against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple\u2019s app store rules distort competition in the market for music streaming services by raising the costs of competing music streaming app developers. 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