Apple was fined 210 million won (currently about 1.111 million yuan) by the Korean regulatory authorities for suspected acts such as collecting location data without the user's consent and violating the policy terms for disclosing location data.
The Turkish Competition Authority announced that it would launch an investigation against Apple on the grounds that "the third-party payment system is not allowed to be used in the App Store, and anti steering terms are applied to mobile application developers".
US District Judge Yvonne?Gonzalez?Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers issued a new order this week to check all Apple's App Store revision documents and further investigate the 27% commission charged outside the App Store (12% for small developers).
Apple recently added the option of including external payment method links for app store developers, but according to the latest information, this anti-monopoly remedy is actually not so attractive.
Apple released a press release today, announcing that in the past four years, the App Store app store has blocked potential fraudulent transactions totaling more than 7 billion dollars (currently about 50.68 billion yuan), of which the amount in 2023 alone will exceed 1.8 billion dollars (currently about 13.032 billion yuan).
Apple has opened the third-party application market in the European Union, allowing developers to install applications through third-party alternative stores or web pages. However, related applications are still subject to the "Apple tax (core technology fees)". If an application is installed more than one million times a year, developers need to pay Apple 0.5 euros (about 3.885 yuan) for the excess downloadsThe cost of a download.
In October 2020, the US Department of Justice accused Google of maintaining its monopoly position in search and search advertising business by improper means. The attack and defense of both sides disclosed many unknown business strategies of Google, including paying a large amount of money to make Google search the default search engine of other browsers.
Apple has launched the Application Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework for three years.Today, we see that the mobile market has gradually adapted to the "new normal" of the ATT era.
TikTok has begun a small-scale test of an option that allows users to recharge gold coins directly through the external web page of tiktok.com. This option does not go through the App Store application's internal purchase system, so it perfectly bypasses the 30% "Apple tax".
