Apple will face more fines for avoiding App Store ruling, Dutch antitrust regulator says
Apple was hit with a second 5-million-euro fine for not complying with a Dutch regulator's order.The regulator told Insider that Apple could face fines beyond the current 50-million-euro maximum.was fined another 5 million euros this week by a Dutch antitrust regulator because the company failed to comply with an order to let dating apps in the Netherlands access payment methods outside Apple's system.
This is the second 5-million-euro fine issued by the Authority for Consumers and Markets against Apple after the regulator reviewed the"We expect Apple to comply with the order subject to periodic penalty payments," Murco Mijnlieff, an ACM spokesman, said, referring to the weekly 5-million-euro fine that came with a maximum of 50 million euros."After that, , we have the opportunity to impose another order subject to periodic penalty payments.
Apple requires all apps to use its App Store payment system, which takes a 15-30% cut of all in-app transactions. The Dutch order is one ofto implement a hard deadline on Apple to allow alternative in-app payment methods, and on January 15, Apple announced new developer options — dubbed"entitlements" — that would let dating apps in the Netherlands App Store use different payment options.
But the new approach requires developers to submit a new"binary" specifically for the Netherlands App Store, whichThe ACM reviewed the changes and announced after one week that the update failed to comply with its order in several aspects. "The most important one is that Apple has failed to adjust its conditions, as a result of which dating-app providers are still unable to use other payment systems," ACM wrote in a statement."In addition, Apple has raised several barriers for dating-app providers to the use of third-party payment systems. That, too, is at odds with ACM's requirements.
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