Apple, Epic games since his affair withIt receives more commissions from all its rival app developers.He is going to court with his accusations. While company officials state that these commissions are standard, companies deny this statement.

After Elon Musk’s confrontation with Apple in recent days, Spotify’s CEO recalled that they filed a lawsuit about 5 years ago over these extremely high commissions and Apple’s “hypocritical” behavior. He repeated his complaints about this. After music giant Spotify, Deezer and Basecamp, the companies also broke their silence and European Commission officials summoned to duty.

So what happened before

The Apple antitrust issue, which emerged about 5 years ago with the complaints of Spotify and some other companies, has flared up regularly for some time now with the Spotify-Apple and Epic Games-Apple lawsuits. Apple reportedly receives a 30% commission on all App Store purchases, while selling its own apps and subsidiaries like Beats and Shazam. allowed in-app payment service, with more affordable prices. Epic Games was the strongest opposition to this situation, and that’s why Fortnite has been removed from the App Store.

Last year, Spotify filed a lawsuit against Apple within the borders of the European Union, reviewing the company’s acquisition process. the entry into force of new laws had caused. But these laws didn’t stop Apple, of course.

Urgent call from Spotify and EU based companies

SpotifyDeezer, base campproton, Schibsted and 3 digital media organizations, the team they prepared today joint letter shared with everyone. Vice President of the European Commission andEurope’s adaptation to the age of technologyIn the letter to Margrethe Vestager, the head of the ‘project, 5 world giant brands, mainly from the App Store commission rates and the commission rates of these commissions. talked about using brands as leverage to “submit”.

Stating that the Cupertino tech giant is trying to scare off its rivals by threatening commissions, brands that have become dominant in the iOS platform in this way have issued an urgent appeal to the EU commission.Every day that the Commission does nothing is hampering the well-being of European consumers.he claimed.

European Commission officials have not yet made a statement about the letter or whether they will take action against Apple. However, in 2023 It’s not hard to predict that things will be tough for Apple..