Apple is set to be hit with a tenth consecutive weekly fine for allegedly not fully complying with an order to open its App Store to rival forms of payment for dating apps in the Netherlands, Dutch antitrust watchdog ACM told Reuters.
The iPhone maker has already racked up 45 million euros ($49 million) in penalties to date as ACM (Authority for Consumers and Markets) has slapped weekly 5 million euro fines on the company since January, with the ninth penalty handed out this week.
Apple submitted a fresh proposal to the ACM this week in a bid to halt the sanction. The offer does not fully comply with its order, an official at the Dutch watchdog, who did not wish to be identified, told Reuters on Friday.
Subsequent fines once the total penalty hits 50 million euros could be higher according to ACM rules.
MacDailyNews Take: Let the courts decide.
Clearly, if a developer wanted to include non-Apple payment methods in their app, a new app build and submission would be required. There’s nothing “burdensome” or “noncompliant” about it as the ACM claims of Apple’s changes to the App Store in The Netherlands.
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For Apple these fines are just “the cost of doing business”, like parking fines to a courier…
Apple should leave the Netherlands.
Screw ‘em.
Does the Netherlands chase after banks overcharges at restaurants if the customer files complaints and fine them same amount of money ? Businesses in the world are stealing tip money already ? Why
Richard, thanks for sharing your whataboutist fears.
To allay your fears: the Netherlands is a very well organized country. They are very tolerant of individual freedom in most things, but they are much more forward leaning than your country in adopting laws that ensure high quality of life for everyone. They strive for a fair set of market rules for the benefit of the people over the profit of rich entrenched corporations.
You should try it in the USA sometime. It would save your small businesses. Your disenfranchised poor would all be less bitter about your business leaders outsourcing everything to China.
Nonsense. Eurotalk. I live here in Finland, you will never speak for me.
Ask yourself …. why isn’t there an Apple in Europe. Why isn’t there a Google in Europe. Why isn’t there an Amazon in Europe. Why isn’t there a Facebook, or a Twitter in Europe? Why can’t Europe come up with an App Store that doesn’t leech oFf someone else’s platform? All of these are products of people who WORK THEIR ASS OFF, and to entrepreneurs that RISK THEIR ASS OFF.
Europeans bathe in these benefits, buys these products, love many of these services. And then you come whining with your ‘equity’ bullshit argument that the little guy is getting crushed, that China is stealing our cake and our poor are disenfranchised. For you, it’s an equality of outcome, not an equality of opportunity. Its so European.
Sure, there are some corrections that always can be made when it gets out of hand, but you want to expropriate innovation, success, venturing and hard work because both sides don’t have the same Chevy, chicken and vacation time off.
Do this …. GET OFF YOUR OWN EUROASS AND GO TO WORK FOR A CHANGE. And while you are at it, CLEAN UP YOUR OWN DAMN BACK YARD WITHOUT DRAWING US INTO ANOTHER EUROPEAN WAR.
We have had enough centuries of Europeans brings death and pain to the rest of the world.
Wow. Do people in Europe not know how to read anymore? Or how software distribution has worked for the past 30+ years? How ignorant.
Apple is rightly telling the Dutch authorities to go die in a ditch.