The European Commission opened formal antitrust investigations in 2020 to assess whether Apple’s rules for app developers and how they distribute their apps over the App Store violates EU competition rules.

Competition law expert Matthew Hunt comments in Information Matters on the latest Apple investigation: “Investigations like these will have an important impact on the future development of services like the App Store and the use of apps more generally. If any of the investigations conclude that Apple has infringed competition law, remedies could range from a reduction in the fees charged to developers to the establishment of rival app stores.”

See Matthew’s previous post on this topic here. For more information on the competition work we do, see our competition litigation and competition advice & investigations practice area pages.

To read the full article, see the Information Matters website.