{"id":944679,"date":"2025-07-08T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944679"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:30:26","slug":"apple-appeals-e500-million-eu-fine-over-app-store-rules-under-digital-markets-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/apple-appeals-e500-million-eu-fine-over-app-store-rules-under-digital-markets-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple appeals \u20ac500 million EU fine over App Store rules under Digital Markets Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. has formally appealed a \u20ac500 million ($580 million) fine imposed by the European Commission, arguing that the penalty is \u201cunprecedented\u201d and the changes demanded of its App Store operations in the European Union are both \u201cunlawful\u201d and detrimental to developers and consumers alike,reported Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The fine, issued in April under the bloc\u2019s newly enforced Digital Markets Act (DMA), accused the iPhone maker of preventing app developers from guiding users toward alternative payment options outside of the App Store ecosystem. Regulators claimed Apple\u2019s previous policies effectively stifled competition by blocking developers from informing users about cheaper purchasing avenues beyond Apple\u2019s tightly controlled platform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. has formally appealed a \u20ac500 million ($580 million) fine imposed by the European Commission, arguing that the penalty is \u201cunprecedented\u201d and the changes demanded of its App Store operations in the European Union are both \u201cunlawful\u201d and detrimental to developers and consumers alike,reported Bloomberg. The fine, issued in April under the bloc\u2019s newly enforced Digital Markets Act (DMA), accused the iPhone maker of preventing app developers from guiding users toward alternative payment options outside of the App Store ecosystem. Regulators claimed Apple\u2019s previous policies effectively stifled competition by blocking developers from informing users about cheaper purchasing avenues beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944679","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}