LONDON (AP) – EU regulators fined Apple and hundreds of millions of euros on Wednesday as they strengthened law enforcement by group of 27 countries Digital competition rules.
The European Commission has prevented app manufacturers from pointing to options outside their app stores to prevent app manufacturers from pointing to Apple’s 500 million euros ($571 million) fines.
The commission, the EU executive, also fined the dollar platform 200 million euros as it forces Facebook and Instagram users to choose between watching ads or paying to avoid them.
The punishment is less than Blockbuster The committee has previously fined billions of dollars in big tech companies AntitrustCase.
The decisions are expected to take place in March, but officials apparently delayed Donald Trump, amid the escalating transatlantic trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump, who repeatedly complained about Brussels’ regulations affecting U.S. companies.
The fine is issued under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (also known as the DMA). This is a lot of rulebooks, equivalent to do and nonts It aims to provide consumers and businesses with more options and prevent large-scale tech “gatekeepers” from turning to the digital market.
The DMA seeks to ensure that “citizens have complete control over when and how their data is used online and that businesses can communicate freely with their own customers.”
“The decision passed today found that both Apple and Meta took this free option from users and needed to change their behavior,” Virkkunen said.
Apple accused the commission of “unfairly targeting” iPhone manufacturers, saying it “spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made dozens of changes to comply with the law.”
“The committee is trying to disable American businesses while allowing Chinese and European companies to operate at different standards,” Joel Kaplan, chief global affairs officer, said in a statement.
