Apple faces a $1 billion fine in the UK for dominant position with its app store

Apple has had to adapt your app store in Europe to allow app stores alternatives and payments through links they redirect away from your store, thus avoiding the payment of 30% commission to the developers that Apple pockets for using its platform. But outside the European Union too they want this type of solutionsfrom the United Kingdom to 1,500 developers they have faced to Apple via a demand for the payment of this type of commission.

A demand that Apple has tried to dismiss and? has not been successful, so the judge has ordered it to continue. This lawsuit will surely not see the light until in a while in which 1 billion dollars is claimed by damages to these developers who have had to pay commissions (unfair for them) of up to 30% from in-app purchases and additional content in them. The lawsuit claims that Apple abuses this dominant position with no other alternative for its platform that takes advantage of to pocket these types of payments.

Manzana allows this type of alternatives in the European Union After a demand made by the European Commission itself, it now seems that Apple can follow the same steps for the rest of the countries who are not satisfied with this type of actions in which no alternative to pay this 30% that the apple manufacturer claims.

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