Apple appealed to Europe’s second-highest court on Monday, challenging a 500 million euro ($587 million) fine imposed by EU regulators earlier this year for violating Digital Market Act regulations. The European Commission in a decision in April said Apple’s technical and commercial restrictions that prevent app developers from steering users to cheaper deals outside the App Store breached the Digital Markets Act.
Reuters:
Apple, which had previously said it would seek legal redress, filed its lawsuit on Monday, the deadline for doing so.
“Today we filed our appeal because we believe the European Commission’s decision – and their unprecedented fine – go far beyond what the law requires,” the company said in a statement.
“As our appeal will show, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users. We implemented this to avoid punitive daily fines and will share the facts with the court.”
Last month, Apple overhauled its App Store rules to comply with the EU order to scrap its technical and commercial curbs on app developers in order to avoid daily fines of 5% of its average daily worldwide revenue or about 50 million euros per day.
MacDailyNews Take: The day the EU is entitled to 5% of Apple’s average daily worldwide revenue – ludicrous – is the day Europeans can further handicap themselves with inferior Android dreck forevermore.
The U.S. has leverage and recourse. We expect both to be used.
Trump administration has been warning the EU against excessive regulation of American technology firms. On February 21st, President Trump issued a directive, “Defending American Companies and Innovators From Overseas Extortion and Unfair Fines and Penalties,” threatening to impose tariffs on Europe to combat what he called “overseas extortion” of American tech companies through digital services taxes, fines, practices, and policies.
See also: President Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook called to complain about EU’s $17 billion in fines – October 17, 2024
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EU thugs at it again.
Wishing Apple godspeed against the notorious EUrocrats.
Or, more realistically, the EU is actually performing their mandate to protect consumers and ensure markets are flat playing fields. This differs greatly from the USA, where billionaires from South Africa bankroll presidential campaigns and the supposed representatives of the people are openly corrupted by their corporate and oligarch puppetmasters. Quid pro quo fir the rich.
US corporations always whine when they can’t write their own industry “regulations” to suit their interests, and pay trifling fines when they egregiously violate obvious ethical and moral standards. Is it your greed that makes you complain about having standards, or are you simply too lazy to keep your business clean?
There is a reason that EU citizens, statistically, are happier, healthier, better educated, and less hyperpartisan than their US cousins. Their regulators aren’t paid off.
Maybe if you update your creaking old constitution to address the glaring ineffectiveness it has in the modern world, you too could enjoy a decent quality of life without your corporate overlords telling you what your lifestyle needs to be, and maybe you wouldn’t be so far in debt chasing glory days that haven’t existed since the 1950s.
If all Europeans are as brainwashed as you seem, I understand why you cannot compete on the world stage without stealing money from others who worked hard and innovated. It seems the EU controls the world? A fine on worldwide income, you must be mad in the truest sense of the word.
Wierd, I don’t know what you read, but Mr. Botvinnik is mostly correct. US politicians are brazenly corrupt, and they serve corporations more than people.
The quality of life, health, etc is as good and sometimes better in many European countries than in America. The US homegrown billionaires like Bezos spend much of their time in Europe and in fact decided to get married there instead of one of his dozens of mansions in the US.
I have relatives on both sides of the Altlantic and spend time in both places. The US has more wide open places, and truly national treasures in national parks. But the cities are crumbling and the politics prevent any wise pragmatic investment in the future, and some politicians want to rape the planet of all resources as fast as possible. The US needs to stop corporatocrcy from taking over.
Europe is much better to raise kids , or have good life balance, eat healthier foods, and enjoy more arts and history without having to be a millionaire.
If you think America is #1 in all things, you’re the brainwashed one here.