{"id":34558,"date":"2021-12-28T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34558"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:48:36","slug":"dutch-anti-steering-ruling-for-dating-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/dutch-anti-steering-ruling-for-dating-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Anti-Steering Ruling for Dating Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/12\/24\/acm-app-store-dating-apps-ruling\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.nl\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/summary-of-decision-on-abuse-of-dominant-position-by-apple.pdf\">PDF<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/12\/24\/acm-app-store-dating-apps-ruling\/\"><p>Apple must let dating apps like Tinder and Match offer payment methods other than Apple&rsquo;s in-app purchase system in the App Store in the Netherlands, or else it will face fines, the Dutch competition regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.nl\/en\/publications\/acm-obliges-apple-adjust-unreasonable-conditions-its-app-store\">announced today<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>&ldquo;Some app providers are dependent on Apple&rsquo;s App Store, and Apple takes advantage of that dependency,&rdquo; said ACM chairman Martijn Snoep. &ldquo;Apple has special responsibilities because of its dominant position. That is why Apple needs to take seriously the interests of app providers too, and set reasonable conditions.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This seems to only apply to dating apps, only requires allowing links to pay outside the app, and doesn&rsquo;t prevent Apple from charging a fee for outside payments.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/14\/apple-wins-delay-on-anti-steering-injuction\/\">Apple Wins Delay on Anti-Steering Injuction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/02\/apple-wants-fee-for-alternate-billing-systems\/\">Apple Wants Fee for Alternate Billing Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/russia-investigates-app-store\/\">Russia Investigates App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/08\/dutch-antitrust-watchdog-wants-iap-changes\/\">Dutch Antitrust Watchdog Wants IAP Changes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"dutch-anti-steering-ruling-for-dating-apps-update-2021-12-29\">Update (2021-12-29): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ednl\/status\/1475974066666409984\">ednl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ednl\/status\/1475974066666409984\">\n<p>Reason given for the limited scope (dating apps) is that it allowed them to show specific damage because those apps must be on both Android and iOS to be effective. Apparently they started out more generally but chose this to have more chance of success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (PDF): Apple must let dating apps like Tinder and Match offer payment methods other than Apple&rsquo;s in-app purchase system in the App Store in the Netherlands, or else it will face fines, the Dutch competition regulator announced today.[&#8230;]&ldquo;Some app providers are dependent on Apple&rsquo;s App Store, and Apple takes advantage of that dependency,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-28T20:43:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"8992cb20-c140-4b24-b7aa-831b9ff670d8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-15T19:48:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AiZLLIMFASyS3qoMbn_Zw2A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,38,101,2160,522,31,2078,2126,1705],"class_list":["post-34558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-dating-apps","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-netherlands","tag-tinder"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34569,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34558\/revisions\/34569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}