Apple Hit With Antitrust Case In India Over In-App Payments Issues: Report

• New Delhi: Apple Inc is faced with an antitrust challenge in India for abusing its dominant position on the application market by requiring developers to use its exclusive integrated purchase system, according to a source and documents observed by Reuters.
• The allegations are similar to those of Apple’s faces in the European Union, where the regulators of last year launched an investigation into the imposition of an apple tax of 30% for the distribution of the Digital content paid and other restrictions.
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• The Indian affair has been filed by a unknown non-profit group that claims that Apple’s fees up to 30% of competition perceive the costs of developers and applications, while acting as A barrier at the entrance on the market. The existence of the 30% commission means that some application developers will never do so on the market.
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• This could also cause prejudice to consumption, “said the deposit, which was observed by Reuters.
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• Unlike Indian Courts, deposits and business details reviewed by the India Competition Commission (ITC) are not made public
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• Apple and the ICC did not respond to a request for comments.
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• In the coming weeks, the ITC will review the case and could order its investigations to conduct a broader investigation or reject it if it does not see any merit in it, has declared a familiar source with the question.
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• “There is a good chance that a survey can be ordered, also because the EU has probably been surveyed,” said the person who refused to be identified as the details of the case are not public.
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• The complainant, not-for-profit “together we fight society”, based in the Western state of India of Rajasthan, told Reuters in a statement that she filed the case in the interest of protecting Indian consumers and startups.
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• In India, although Apple’s IOS powered only about 2% of the 520 million smartphones by END-2020 – with the rest using Android – CountPoint search, indicates that the US Smartphone base in the US cabinet in The country has more than doubled over the last five years.
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• The Apple case in India is just like the Parliament of South Korea this week approved a bill that prohibits major application store operators such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple forcing software developers to use their payment systems. “
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• Middleman in transactions
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• “Companies like Apple and Google say their fees cover the benefits of security and marketing that their application stores provide, but many companies disagree.
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• Last year, after Indian startups were publicly expressed by similar application payments concerned by Google, the ITC ordered an investigation therein as part of a wider antitrust probe in the company.
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• This survey is in progress.
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• Antitrust Against Apple also alleges that its restrictions on how developers communicate with users to offer payment solutions are anti-competitive and also hurt the payment processors of the country that offer services to low charges. between 1 and 5%.
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• Apple injured competitors by limiting developers to inform users of alternative purchase opportunities, thus injuring the relationship “application developers with their customers by inserting themselves as an interndleman in each integrated transaction,” added “, added the deposit.
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• In recent weeks, Apple has released some of the restrictions for developers worldwide, as allowing them to use communications, such as e-mail – to share information about payment alternatives outside their application IOS.
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• And Wednesday, he added that this would allow some applications to provide customers with an integrated link to bypass Apple’s purchase system, although the US company has kept a prohibition from other forms of options. Payment inside applications.
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• Gautam Shahi, a competition law partner of the Indian law firm Dua Associates, said that even if companies change behavior after an antitrust analysis filed, the ICC still examines past driving.
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• “The ICC will examine the last few years to see if the law was violated and if consumers and competition were injured,” said Shahi.
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• The CCI plans to accelerate all cases involving large technology companies such as Amazon and Google by deploying additional officers and passing stricter internal deadlines, reported reuters.
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