{"id":37951,"date":"2022-12-22T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37951"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:32:44","slug":"french-court-fines-apple-over-abusive-app-store-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/french-court-fines-apple-over-abusive-app-store-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"French Court Fines Apple Over Abusive App Store Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-fined-1-mln-euros-by-paris-commercial-court-over-app-store-practices-2022-12-19\/\">Reuters<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/12\/19\/apple-abusive-app-store-practices-france-fine\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-fined-1-mln-euros-by-paris-commercial-court-over-app-store-practices-2022-12-19\/\"><p>The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company&rsquo;s App Store, the court ruling showed.<\/p><p>The ruling, seen by Reuters, said there was no need to order Apple, which has a market value of about $2.1 trillion, to tweak the App Store&rsquo;s clauses because the European Union&rsquo;s incoming Digital Markets Act would require changes in any case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And the pricing complaint was <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/smaller-app-store-pricing-increments\/\">just addressed<\/a> as part of the Cameron settlement.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/apple-working-on-sideloading-for-europe\/\">Apple Working on Sideloading for Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/smaller-app-store-pricing-increments\/\">Smaller App Store Pricing Increments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/france-to-take-legal-action-against-app-stores\/\">France to Take Legal Action Against App Stores<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"french-court-fines-apple-over-abusive-app-store-practices-update-2022-12-23\">Update (2022-12-23): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/12\/paris-commercial-court-declined-to-find.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/12\/paris-commercial-court-declined-to-find.html\"><p>I have meanwhile obtained and perused a copy of the entire 30-part judgment by the Paris Commercial Court&rsquo;s 13th Chamber (trade judges Alain Wormser (presiding judge), G&eacute;rard Palti, and Beatriz Rego Fernandez). There are other counts on which Apple prevailed, and which have not received enough attention. As a commentator on these cases, I can&rsquo;t just ignore the unfavorable parts of a decision.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>My overall impression of the decision is that the three-judge panel was simply not interested in tackling some of the more difficult questions, such as the fairness of Apple&rsquo;s requirement that all in-app purchases use Apple&rsquo;s IAP system and the app tax of 30% or more for developers of a certain size (and 15% or more for small ones).<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters (via MacRumors): The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company&rsquo;s App Store, the court ruling showed.The ruling, seen by Reuters, said there was no need to order Apple, which has a [&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":"2022-12-22T21:59:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"7a72c1e5-94e8-40af-8e1d-e1810c82402b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-23T20:32:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AenLB5ZToQK-OHeGBDIJAKw","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":[2085,91,38,2169,31,2185,209],"class_list":["post-37951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-france","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951","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=37951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37976,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions\/37976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}