The European Union has closed its antitrust investigation into Apple’s “anticompetitive behavior” blocking competing ebook and audiobook apps from selling directly within the app without paying Apple’s 30 percent tax. The complaint focused on Apple imposing “the mandatory use of its own proprietary in-app purchase system” and the company’s restrictions on allowing other apps to “inform iPhone and iPad users of alternative cheaper purchasing possibilities available outside the App Store.” The matter was closed because the unnamed complainant, a distributor of e-books and audiobooks, withdrew the complaint that it launched in 2020. “The closure of an investigation is not a […]
