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Colombia joins the list of countries probing Apple over App Store antitrust concerns
The country has formally announced an investigation that may require Apple to change some of its App Store rules.
Colombia’s Office for Competition Protection concluded that Apple had “restricted the access of new participants in the digital application distribution market” by prohibiting alternatives to its App Store, and said “This conduct was intended to exclude potential competitors and preserve Apple’s monopolistic position in the digital goods distribution market for the iOS and iPadOS operating systems. “In practice, this restriction meant that developers could not provide their users with alternative payment methods for purchasing digital services and subscriptions within their applications, which allowed Apple to take advantage of this limitation to increase its profits.”
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