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Apple hit with a nearly $2 billion fine following Spotify complaint
Just before the EU’s DMA shakes up the app market.
News of today’s fine was earlier reported by the Financial Times, and comes ahead of Apple’s huge shakeup of the iPhone’s app distribution rules due to the EU’s Digital Markets Act. In February 2023, the commission said its “preliminary view” was that Apple’s “anti-steering obligations” represent “unfair trading conditions” and argued that its App Store policies were “neither necessary nor proportionate,” could result in users paying more, and limited consumer choice. But this second change only applied to so-called “reader apps” for services like Netflix, Kindle, or Spotify that are designed primarily to provide access to digital content, and developers needed to request an “entitlement” before they could add an external link.
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