Apple Loses Legal Fight Over Its App Store 'Gatekeeper' Status In Europe
It means the company must keep allowing rival services to interoperate with all its app stores.
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Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules that designated it as a "gatekeeper," according to a press release from the European court of justice. The decision means that Apple must continue to allow rivals to interoperate with its five app stores, as required by the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The court also ruled that Apple's challenges over an investigation of its iMessage service were "inadmissible."
Apple was fighting against the DMA on three fronts. The first was its requirement that rival hardware (like earbuds and smartwatches) work with the iPhone, which Apple claimed was a security risk. The company also objected to its designation as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA with its iOS, macOS, watchOS, iPadOS and tvOS app stores. Finally, Apple challenged the EU Commission's probe into whether...
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