Apple ‘abuses’ market dominance, hurts app developers: CCI probe

NEW DELHI: Competition Commission of India’s investigative arm has found tech giant Apple abusing market dominance and engaging in unfair business practices to the detriment of lakhs of app developers and consumers, opening the prospects of potential fines running into thousands of crores of rupees as well as restraining orders.

The probe, which has been on since 2021, now seems to be veering towards closure that will see the fair play watchdog take strict action against Apple, something it also did in the case of Google India which faced similar charges of abuse of dominance.