2023-05-11 16:19:06
The competition authority in Italy announced on Thursday that it had opened an investigation against Apple for suspicion of “abuse of a dominant position” in the application market on its smartphones and tablets.
The American giant “has adopted more restrictive privacy measures for third-party application developers than those it applies to itself,” said the Competition Guarantor Authority in a statement. and market (AGCM).
According to the AGCM, third-party developers and advertisers would also be “disadvantaged in terms of the data made available by Apple”.
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These “possibly discriminatory practices” can cut into the revenues of third-party developers and prevent competitors from entering or remaining in the market, benefiting applications designed by Apple itself.
Apple, which posted a net profit of 24 billion dollars in the first quarter, has already found itself in the crosshairs of competition authorities in Europe.
In May 2022, the European Commission accused the American giant of blocking competition in contactless payment systems, by imposing its Apple Pay service on users of its mobile phones.
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