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DOJ’s Apple antitrust case neatly aligns with EU on one key point: NFC and mobile payments
There is overlap in the issues the DOJ and Europe are addressing with Apple, but digital wallets are where they are most neatly aligned.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, the DOJ agreed with the E.U.’s assertion that Apple unfairly favors its own mobile payment tech, giving third-party developers little choice but to play ball. Spotify has lobbied against this practice for a long time, and is currently testing out the resilience of Europe’s new Digital Market Act (DMA) which have anti-steering provisions in place. So while there’s clearly some overlap in the issues that the DOJ and Europe are trying to address around Apple’s alleged monopoly and anticompetitive practices, there are also notable divergences in terms of specific areas of focus.
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