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EU looking into Apple’s decision to kill Epic Games’ developer account


The European Union has confirmed it's looking into Apple's decision to close Epic Games' developer account -- citing three separate regulations which may The European Union has confirmed it's looking into Apple's decision to close Epic Games' developer account -- citing three separate regulations which may apply.

Yesterday, Apple issued an aggressive statement in response — hitting back at Epic’s accusations, and citing a US court ruling as justification for terminating its account. However Apple may be seeking to play one legal jurisdiction off against another — which has decided its market power is a problem and already passed laws regulating how it can operate its App Store. Apple was contacted for a response to the Commission’s request for further explanations of its actions under the DMA and to the doubts the bloc is raising about its compliance with other measures applied to the App Store by the DSA and P2B.

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