After Trump-Zale: Apple threatened to harass Chinese antitrust guard

The Chinese government has targeted the Apple of its antitrust officers. For market regulation (SAMR) in Beijing, the state administration should focus on whether the Apple’s App Store Commission is appropriate up to 30 percent. The process, which is currently in an early stage, is reminiscent of similar procedures from the European Union Commission, the US government and various other countries.

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The approach is similar to the European Union

Earlier, there was already a suit of a Chinese app provider against Apple, which reminds us of a legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games about App Store Payment Methods. But this time the pressure is based on the state: Beijing is apparently looking for a new liver against Apple due to a trade dispute with the United States. Financial news agency like Bloomberg WriteAmong other things, a potential process is about the general obligation of Apple for your app store developers not to integrate their own payment systems.

Disputes should be about the relationship with great Chinese developers such as bidence (tiktok / duin) or tanent (weichhat). Samr assumes that Apple Chinese developers demand “unfairly high taxes”. Ban on the alternative app store is also a problem.

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Digital markets serve as a model?

The authority did not comment on the request by fax by Bloomberg. It is not clear that when a process can begin against the Chinese app store. In Europe, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been a regulation of the European Union since last year, which ensures that Apple would have to change the app store and allow alternative proposals.

China has great importance for Apple. Apart from the fact that most of the groups of the group are still manufactured in the People’s Republic, the country regularly ranks second for the strongest market for Apple. Recently, however, the revenue was and fell – more than the forecast by Wall Street. Smartphones from contestants like Huawei are real expeditions for “Made in China”, which specially costs the shares of the Apple market. The missing AI functions in China are also not helpful for the group.

(BSC)