Urgent Call from Spotify and European Companies to the EU Commission

apple, Epic Games since his case withEarn more commissions from all competing app developers” he is going to court with his allegations. Although company officials state that these commissions are standard, companies deny this statement.

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

So what happened before

Apple’s antitrust issue, which came to the fore with the complaints of Spotify and some other companies about 5 years ago, has frequently flared up with the Spotify-Apple and Epic Games-Apple lawsuits for a while. Allegedly, Apple receives a 30% commission on all purchases on the App Store, while its own apps and subsidiaries such as Beats and Shazam allowed in-app payment service, offering more affordable prices. Epic Games was the strongest opposition to this situation, and therefore Fortnite was 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 of course, these laws didn’t stop Apple.

Urgent call from Spotify and EU-based companies

SpotifyDeezer, basecampproton, 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 written to Margrethe Vestager, the head of the project “5 world giant brands, mainly from the commission rates in the App Store and the commission rates of these commissions. spoke of the use of brands as leverage to “submit”.

Stating that the technology giant from Cupertino is trying to deter its rivals by threatening with commissions, brands that have become dominant in the iOS platform in this way, made an urgent call to the EU commission,Every day the Commission does not act, the well-being of European consumers is hindered.” he stated.

EU Commission officials have not yet made a statement about the letter or whether they will take action against Apple. However, in 2023 It is not difficult to predict that it will be difficult for Apple..