• Send Us A Tip
  • Calling all Tech Writers
  • Advertise
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
  • Login
  • Register
TechStory
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
TechStory
No Result
View All Result
Home Tech

Netherlands Government Finds Apple to be Guilty of Anti-Competitive Policies

by Jigyasa Prashar
December 27, 2021
in Tech
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
How to pay apple card bill

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 05: The Apple logo is seen hanging inside the Apple store on West 66th Street on October 5, 2011 in New York City. Jobs, 56, passed away October 5, 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and is credited, along with Steve Wozniak, with marketing the world's first personal computer in addition to the popular iPod, iPhone and iPad. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

TwitterWhatsappLinkedin

The Dutch government recently concluded that Apple’s App Store actively promotes anti-competitive policies, and as a result, the company must amend its policy or risk a fine.

You might also like

Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

New Federal Bill Proposes $250 Registration Fee for Electric Vehicles: What Drivers Need to Know

Nuvie Raises $450K to Reinvent Healthy Indulgence in India

Courtesy: Reuters

This is far not the first big examination into the App Store’s policies and guidelines; rather, it is the most recent in a series of investigations done by various governments over the last few years. While 2021 was a prosperous year for Apple, it also brought a lot of external scrutiny to the table, as other individuals and echelons of authority began to recognise the company’s financial gain may not have been as hard-earned as it seemed. It’s easy to see why, given that the shop has long been the target of criticism and complaints from the general public and developers alike.

Creators are more or less compelled to give in to Apple’s demands and make do because the App Store is also the only available method of application downloads, except for alternative methods that will prove to be crucial to this piece later on. Sure, major names like Meta aren’t affected, but most developers aren’t employed by multibillion-dollar organisations and are simply trying to make ends meet. There is another way to purchase apps across Apple devices, but it isn’t applicable to every app. The App Store has been effectively bypassed if a developer has built up a secondary website or online platform via which consumers can purchase the app or in-app goods. That is, if it weren’t for the fact that all multibillion-dollar corporations are governed by unscrupulous, greedy money men.

Enter Epic Games, whose flagship product is Fortnite (if I have to explain what Fortnite is to someone reading a technology piece, they’re either over 50 or too young to be here). It’s a video game if they’re 50). Epic launched a complaint against Apple, alleging that the company had pulled the developer’s games from the App Store because it gave players discounts on in-app purchases if they purchased them straight from the company’s website. Apple penalised the company by taking them off the App Store because this effectively drew traffic away from it.

Of course, litigation take time, and this one is still underway, but other countries have begun to notice Apple’s in-app purchase reductions. The United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and other countries began their own investigations into the topic, unanimously finding the firm guilty of anti-competitive behavior. Apple, of course, filed appeals in all of these cases, and plans to do so with the Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers and Markets as well (which conducted this investigation in the first place).

 

Tags: #anticompetitive#pleaAppleDutchgovernmentinvestigationNetherlandspolicytech
Tweet54SendShare15
Previous Post

China is helping Myanmar military build a great firewall

Next Post

Hyundai unveils mobile eccentric Droid with baby stroller on top

Jigyasa Prashar

Recommended For You

Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

by Rohan Mathawan
June 17, 2025
0
Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses demand web applications that are modern, scalable, and high-performing. To meet this, many companies are turning to full-stack JavaScript frameworks, especially MERN...

Read more

New Federal Bill Proposes $250 Registration Fee for Electric Vehicles: What Drivers Need to Know

by Samir Gautam
June 17, 2025
0
New Federal Bill Proposes $250 Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles

In a dramatic vote on Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s newly introduced budget proposal, officially titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by...

Read more

Nuvie Raises $450K to Reinvent Healthy Indulgence in India

by Ishaan Negi
June 17, 2025
0
Nuvie Raises $450K to Reinvent Healthy Indulgence in India

Bengaluru-based F&B startup Nuvie has raised over $450,000 (INR 3.8 crore) in its maiden pre-seed funding round, led by India’s fastest-growing accelerator, PedalStart. Nuvie is carving out a...

Read more
Next Post
Hyundai reveals Droid that can be used indoors or for service robots.

Hyundai unveils mobile eccentric Droid with baby stroller on top

Please login to join discussion

Techstory

Tech and Business News from around the world. Follow along for latest in the world of Tech, AI, Crypto, EVs, Business Personalities and more.
reach us at [email protected]

Advertise With Us

Reach out at - [email protected]

BROWSE BY TAG

#Crypto #howto 2024 acquisition AI amazon Apple bitcoin Business China cryptocurrency e-commerce electric vehicles Elon Musk Ethereum facebook flipkart funding Gaming Google India Instagram Investment ios iPhone IPO Market Markets Meta Microsoft News NFT samsung Social Media SpaceX startup startups tech technology Tesla TikTok trend trending twitter US

© 2024 Techstory.in

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to

© 2024 Techstory.in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?