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The EU is investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and self-preferencing

The European Commission has opened investigations into Apple and Google over their new policies for developers in the EU. The bloc is looking into whether the fees and conditions comply with strict new rules for major tech firms.

As things currently stand, the new rules from these tech companies may "constrain ... developers' ability to freely communicate and promote offers and directly conclude contracts, including by imposing various charges." "There are things that we take a keen interest in, for instance, if the new Apple fee structure will de facto not make it in any way attractive to use the benefits of the DMA," antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager told Reuters on March 19. Today's announcement also hints that Apple's "new fee structure" for alternative app stores may still be on the docket for future intervention, along with, apparently, Amazon's possible self-preferencing in its digital storefront.

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