Friday, 24 March, 2023

Apple slapped with another €5M fine from Dutch regulators in dating app dispute

<p>Apple&rsquo;s attempt has gone to waste as Dutch regulators have handed a fine of another &euro;5M. Last week, Apple released an update which allowed dating apps to use third party payment systems which was instructed by the regulators. However, this would require developers to include a separate app binary on Dutch&rsquo;s storefront which was concluded by the ACM as an unreasonable barrier for developers. ACM has stated that creating a whole other app for this purpose is unacceptable.</p>