Apple facing potential App Store probe in China | Infinium-tech
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) is expected to start an antitrust investigation on a full scale on Apple’s app store. This measure is expected to be in response to the recent trade tariff imposed on Chinese goods by the United States.
The upcoming investigation is expected to target 30% commission of the App Store on in-app shopping. In addition, SAMR will review the Apple’s policy to ban third-party payment systems and alternative app stores from its platform. Chinese developers TENCENT and bytedance are important for Apple’s app store policies over the years, which they claim that local competition and consumers are obstructed.
The Chinese regulator has not yet confirmed its investigation on Apple, but has recently launched a full -scale anti -monopoly trust case against Google. A similar investigation against NVIDIA started in December.
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