The European Union is currently completing the first major investigation whether Apple actually follows some law requirements on the Digital Markets Act, DMA. According to regulators, this is not clearly the case: the European Union Commission prepares to apply penalty payment against Apple and issue instructions to eliminate the violation-it is expected to happen in the coming week. Reuters news agency report Famous people on Tuesday citing this case.
High Commission on Web Purchase
In particular, the investigation is about whether the Apple app provides and developers allow their customers to be referenced independently for cheap offers on the web stores. Although Apple had already loosened its controversial sweat (“Anti-Staring Rules”) for developers, the group continues to emphasize a commission: If the app users directly purchases from the provider on the web, Apple also demands up to 27 percent of the selling price itself.
He has already shown that the Commission does not agree. The fee goes “far”, which is actually suitable for it, it was already said in the last June. The keeper of the European Union competition has recently made the same allegations against Google’s Play Store in Android.
Due to these anti -steering rules, the European Union Commission had already fined 1.8 billion euros against Apple in a competitive process initiated by Spotify. How high the upcoming fine is now open for time. The Digital Markets Act allows 10 percent of the global corporate turnover to be punished in Apple, which will be circling multiple bills.
More selection with standard apps and browsers
However, the European Union Commission is now satisfied with other far -reaching changes in iOS: Apple had to recover largely for the standard app and browser selection communication, but now fulfills DMA rules. Users can now set standard apps in iOS settings, follow further settings with iOS 18.4, for example to define their own navigation app as standard. In addition, all Apple apps can now be removed from the operating system-upart from telephone and settings.
The new browser selection dialogue, which the iPhone users should now look more often, seem to have at least a small effect: the number of firefox active users in Germany almost doubled almost doubled, Mosila recently said. Full web browsers with their own engine are now allowed to follow DMA rules in Apple, but neither Chrome nor Firefox has implemented it so far.
(Lbe)
