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Apple appeals $580 million EU fine over App Store restrictions
The Commission fined Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million euros ($23.4 million) earlier this year – the first fines handed out by the agency under...
It folded every EU-only "external payment" carve-out into one entitlement that lets any iOS or iPadOS app point users to, or embed, its own checkout, and it ditched the €0.50-per-install Core Technology Fee. In its place comes a three-part cut: 2% the first time developers sell to a user, 5% or 13% for App Store services depending on how many of Apple's discovery/update features devs keep, and a 5% Core Technology Commission when the purchase happens off-store. President Trump has slammed the EU's antitrust fines on Apple, Meta and other US tech giants as a "novel form of economic extortion" and an attack on American sovereignty.
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