{"id":1024667,"date":"2026-07-30T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024667"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:12:32","slug":"apple-says-uk-app-store-proposal-amounts-to-price-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/apple-says-uk-app-store-proposal-amounts-to-price-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple says UK App Store proposal amounts to price regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Apple said on Wednesday that proposed UK rules governing its App Store would amount to price regulation, arguing that plans to loosen its control over in-app payments could undermine innovation and investment. <\/p>\n<p>In a submission to Britain&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority, the iPhone maker said proposed &#8220;steering&#8221; requirements would go beyond promoting competition and give the regulator a &#8220;highly intrusive&#8221; role in managing its business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Apple said on Wednesday that proposed UK rules governing its App Store would amount to price regulation, arguing that plans to loosen its control over in-app payments could undermine innovation and investment. In a submission to Britain&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority, the iPhone maker said proposed &#8220;steering&#8221; requirements would go beyond promoting competition and give the regulator a &#8220;highly intrusive&#8221; role in managing its business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024687,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024667\/revisions\/1024687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}