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Despite the fact that the White House claims that it would not endure the fined EU apples, and the EU stated that it would not be launched, Apple was fined $ 570 million for the alleged non-compliance of the Law on Digital Markets (DMA). Now Apple is attracted by a fine, and, according to Politico, the company repels the entire EU process.
Throughout the entire time, when DMA spoke for the first time, then implemented and finally turned into a law, Apple repeatedly said that he constantly works with the EU to ensure compliance. Now this suggests that it was more, as if he was trying, but the EU is not interested in saying that he would solve problems to satisfy regulation.
, in particular, in the summer of 2024, according to reports, Apple proposed to abandon their anti-world rules that regulate how developers can communicate with users. It is claimed that the European commission said Apple to postpone this, while it consulted with the developers.
Apple, without discarding its anti-world rules, then it became central to why the EU fined Apple in April 2025. Apple accused the EU of not talking to Apple over the past few months of 2024, in creating a fine.
In October 2024, the unknown head of Apple complained about this to the two bodies of the European Commission, the General Director of Communication networks, content and technologies (DG Connect) and the Director General for competition DG).
This letter of Apple says that the teams of the European Commission “made it clear to them” that the EU intended to release a “potentially significant fine.” In particular, he calls the then commission to Margrette Westager as a decision responsible for this decision.
Vestager was the leader against the EU competition for a decade, during which she was responsible for a fine of $ 2 billion against Apple Music. She also provoked a long tax dispute, which Tim Cook called “full political shit.”
complaints in this October letter, and now also the reported basis for Apple appeal, follow the same lines as the public statement made by Apple after the decision is announced.
“We spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made dozens of changes in accordance with this law, not one of which our users asked,” said Apple representative Emma Wilson at that time. “Despite the countless meetings, the commission continues to move target posts at every step.”
as the EU reacted
in response to the press questioning about the accusations of Apple, the European commission insisted that she has open door policy. Nevertheless, the company is “the only responsibility” to follow the law.
“The commission made it clear that the offers of Apple from the very beginning could not cope with effective compliance and encouraged the company to look for reviews about the market,” said the representative of the European Commission Lee Zuber. “In the past [month], the decision is considered, which Apple decided to expand, and not any other hypothetical approach, which is possible, possibly, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps the company examined “. “COL-SM-12” is reported by Meta & Mdash; which was fined simultaneously with Apple & Mdash; The fact that the European Commission “continues its interaction with Apple and META to ensure compliance with the decisions of the commission and the DMA as a whole.”
has not yet been announced about the hearing in Apple's appeal against the EU fine.
separately, about the same anti-competitive methods in which Apple accused the EU recently led to the fact that the District Judge of the United States Ivonn Gonzalez Rogers ordered changes in the rules of the application store.
