Apple appealed the $2B European Commission fine over competition laws. Apple was accused of unfairly favoring its music streaming service over rivals.
Headphones and Apple Music logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Dec. 5, 2023.challenge against the 1.8 billion euro fine assessed by the European Commission for breaking competition laws and unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals including Spotify.
Apple has always strongly denied those claims, arguing that EU investigators had failed “to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm.” The commission’s decision “ignores the realities of a market that is thriving, competitive, and growing fast,” the tech company said in a statement two months ago.
The DMA requires the six tech giants designated as “gatekeepers” by the European Commission — Apple, Google parent company Alphabet, Amazon, TikTok-owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft — to comply with a raft of provisions, including not favoring in-house services at the expense of third-party providers.
However, Apple’s plans to charge “high volume” services with over 1 million users a €0.50 “core technology fee” per download, per year, for using alternatives to the App Store has been heavily criticized by a number of European businesses, including Spotify and Deezer.
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