{"id":179283,"date":"2025-07-07T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/apple-appeals-eus-e500m-fine-over-app-store-payment-restraints-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:47:57","slug":"apple-appeals-eus-e500m-fine-over-app-store-payment-restraints-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/apple-appeals-eus-e500m-fine-over-app-store-payment-restraints-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple appeals EU&#8217;s \u20ac500M fine over App Store payment restraints | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple on Monday filed an appeal against the EU\u2019s decision to fine the company \u20ac500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with rules that mandate the company to let developers steer users outside the App Store to make purchases, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-07\/apple-appeals-unprecedented-500-million-eu-app-store-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/apple-takes-fight-against-587-million-eu-antitrust-fine-court-2025-07-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Commission issued the fine in April, saying that Apple failed to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules to allow developers to accept payments for their apps outside Apple\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/26\/apple-updates-the-rules-for-its-eu-app-store-by-adding-more-complicated-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised its fee structure for app distribution<\/a> in the EU in late June with a more complicated framework that includes an initial acquisition fee, a store services fee, and a core technology commission to accommodate alternative payment methods. This move was likely to avoid further fines from the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe the European Commission\u2019s decision \u2014 and their unprecedented fine \u2014 go far beyond what the law requires. As our appeal will show, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users,\u201d Apple told TechCrunch in a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The story has been updated with Apple\u2019s comments<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/07\/apple-appeals-eus-e500m-fine-over-app-store-payment-restraints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple on Monday filed an appeal against the EU\u2019s decision to fine the company \u20ac500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with rules that mandate the company to let developers steer users outside the App Store to make purchases, according to multiple reports. The European Commission issued the fine in April, saying that Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}