Apple Is the First Company Charged With Violating EU's Competition Law

The European Commission has accused Apple of violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU regulation that serves to protect competition in the tech space. Apple, which must follow the DMA's rules exclusively in the EU, is the first company to be charged under the Act.The Commission is specifically honing in on what it refers to as the App Store's anti-steering practices, arguing that Apple must allow app developers to link to external sites, where app users can then pay for certain services - ...