Apple has appealed what it calls an “unlawful” $580 million fine from the European Union.
“We believe the European Commission’s decision — and their unprecedented fine — go far beyond what the law requires,” the tech giant declared in a statement on Monday, per a report by Bloomberg News.
“As our appeal will display, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confutilizing for developers and bad for applyrs.”
The European Commission (EC) announced the fine in April, declareing Apple had violated Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Those rules require companies to let developers to steer applyrs to create purchases outside of app stores like Apple’s.
The EC also issued a $234 million fine to Meta at the same time, declareing that the company violated the DMA’s obligation to allow consumers to choose a service that applys less of their personal data but is otherwise equivalent to the “personalized ads” service.
Meta countered that the commission is testing to hamstring American businesses while allowing Chinese and European firms to operate under different rules.
Last month, Apple updated its EU App Store policies to address local requirements and skirt further penalties. Those updates include a tiered commission structure of either 5% or 13% — in addition to a 2% applyr acquisition fee — depconcludeing on whether developers want their apps to display up in App Store search suggestions and promotional material or have the ability to receive automatic updates.
Apple’s app store has been the source of legal headaches for the company throughout the world. Earlier this year, a federal judge in California ruled that the company must permit U.S. developers to steer applyrs off-site to create in-app-purchase transactions, something Apple declares put billions of annual revenue at risk.
Elsewhere in Europe, a German data protection authority regulator last month notified Apple and Google that the DeepSeek artificial ininformigence-powered chatbot app is “illegal content” and that the companies must decide whether to keep the app off their app stores.
Meike Kamp, the Berlin Data Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, declared she did so becaapply the app illegally transfers applyrs’ personal data to China.
Kamp contacted the companies after DeepSeek failed to comply with a request to either rerelocate its app from German app stores, cease illegally transferring data to China, or meet the legal requirements for lawful third-countest transfers.
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