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...This month, Apple unveiled a series of changes to its iOS mobile software in Europe in an effort to comply with the DMA, such as allowing users to download apps from other sources and access alternative...
...It added: “The App Store has helped Spotify become the top music streaming service across Europe and we hope the European Commission will end its pursuit of a complaint that has no merit.”...
...Google and some of Europe’s largest telecoms operators have called on Brussels to designate iMessage as a “core” service that would require Apple to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals....
...The latest move against Booking comes days after Brussels pushed to crack down on Apple with a fine in the region of €500mn for allegedly breaking EU law relating to access to its music streaming services...
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...In Brussels, Europe has already moved ahead with a Digital Markets Act that rewrites antitrust doctrine for the tech era and is designed to force open the most powerful tech ecosystems....
...Apple has already made concessions. It will allow users in Europe to access rival app stores and payment systems on smartphones and tablets, for example, in a process called sideloading....
...implications for Europe’s cohesion, influence and standing in the world....
...Oliver Bethell, director of competition at Google, said: “To comply with the Digital Markets Act, we have made significant changes to the way our services operate in Europe . . ....
...The move removes the US games company’s ability to offer titles to Apple mobile users or proceed with launching a competing app store on its rival’s iOS mobile software in Europe....
...The war on Apple is indeed multi-front. In Europe, the competition authorities have fined the company €1.8bn for suppressing competition from rival music streaming services on its platform....
...Apple declined to comment....
...Both changes are effective immediately for customers in Europe....
...Some EU lawmakers also took issue with Apple’s move....
...Europe generates 7 per cent of those revenues. The companies are seeking to challenge Apple in other ways....
...While Apple’s problems in Europe deepen, the US legal fight is one that the company has, in some respects, already gone through....
...This month the bloc’s Digital Markets Act also came into force, requiring the iPhone maker to make historic changes to its mobile ecosystem in Europe, opening it up to rival stores and payment methods....
...The cancellation comes as the sale of electric vehicles has slowed in Europe and the US in recent months....
...Last week Apple changed its rules in the US to comply....
...There are also fears in the US and Europe that as domestic demand growth slows in China, a wave of Chinese EV exports will flood international markets, raising fears over unfair trade practices and national...
...But breaking the ice on Europe’s listings market isn’t for the faint-hearted....
...Apple will also charge an additional 3 per cent fee to app developers that use its payment processor....
...Events: Big Tech companies such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft face a European Commission deadline to ensure compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act....
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