Apple has petitioned India’s Delhi High Court to block the Competition Commission of India (CCI) from accessing its global financial records as part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into its App Store policies, arguing that compliance would undermine its separate legal challenge to new 2024 penalty rules that could impose fines based on worldwide turnover.
Reuters:
The U.S. tech giant has said it fears it could be fined up to $38 billion if the watchdog uses its global turnover calculation for penalties. It has challenged the 2024 penalty rules in an Indian court, and the matter is pending.
Still, the CCI pressed ahead and sought financials from Apple in a private order on December 31, and Apple has now asked a Delhi High Court judge to direct CCI to not act against the company at this stage, and put the entire investigation on hold, according to a January 15 Apple filing which is not public.
Apple argues that being forced to comply now would defeat its main legal challenge against India’s penalty rules, which the CCI has defended as necessary to discourage breaches by multinationals.
MacDailyNews Note: The Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear the matter on January 27th.
We get the feeling that inside the Indian government — which fairly screams “clusterfsck!” — the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
Seriously, India, do you want to make iPhones or not? Do you want to make chips or not? Do you want to make Macs, iPads, AirPods, Apple Watches, etc., or not? Do you want jobs, or not? – MacDailyNews, January 15, 2026
How much did it cost developers to have their apps burned onto CDs, boxed, shipped, displayed on store shelves prior to Apple remaking the world for the better for umpteenth time? Does Apple not have costs to store, review, organize, surface, and distribute apps to 1+ billion users? – MacDailyNews, July 30, 2021
See also:
• Indian government wants Apple to give them iOS source code – January 13, 2026
• India’s iPhone exports go from zero to $50 billion in 5 years – January 6, 2026
• After Apple says no way, India revokes order to preload state-run ‘cybersecurity’ app on smartphones – December 3, 2025
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