Apple has been fined $2 billion in the EU over complaints from Spotify about its App Store rules. The Digital Markets Act requires companies to comply with new regulations, but some are trying to delay the inevitable.
Although the Digital Markets Act came into force on November 1, 2022, some gatekeepers designated by the European Commission had until March 2024 to comply with the new regulations. Amazon, and ByteDance are the six important companies that had extra time to make all the necessary changes to their business models to comply with the new set of rules and obligations. Unfortunately, even after being fined some of these companies are trying to delay the inevitable.
Apple was recently hit with a $2 billion fine in the EU over complaints from Spotify about its App Store rules.from informing customers about the prices of its services, nor to allow customers to purchase subscriptions directly from the provider of the services.,” thus preventing the streaming company from updating the app for its users. The Spotify app update that was submitted to Apple on March 5, but hasn’t been approved nor rejected by the latte
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