{"id":46071,"date":"2024-12-06T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46071"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:32:39","slug":"uk-app-store-commission-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/06\/uk-app-store-commission-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK App Store Commission Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/12\/03\/apple-fails-block-uk-app-store-lawsuit\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/12\/03\/apple-fails-block-uk-app-store-lawsuit\/\"><p>Led by competition policy professor Sean Ennis, the suit alleges Apple&rsquo;s 15-30% commission on App Store sales creates an anti-competitive tax on the UK technology industry. The lawsuit seeks &pound;785 million ($995 million) in damages on behalf of UK app developers. The case could potentially benefit up to 13,000 developers who have sold apps or in-app subscriptions to iOS users since July 2017.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This latest legal challenge expands on a previous suit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/07\/25\/apple-uk-antitrust-lawsuit-app-store-fees\/\">filed last year<\/a>, which initially represented around 1,500 UK developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/05\/microsoft-still-unhappy-with-ios-cloud-gaming-rules\/\">Microsoft Still Unhappy With iOS Cloud Gaming Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/27\/uk-antitrust-lawsuit-over-app-store-fees\/\">UK Antitrust Lawsuit Over App Store Fees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Led by competition policy professor Sean Ennis, the suit alleges Apple&rsquo;s 15-30% commission on App Store sales creates an anti-competitive tax on the UK technology industry. The lawsuit seeks &pound;785 million ($995 million) in damages on behalf of UK app developers. The case could potentially benefit up to 13,000 developers who have sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-12-06T19:30:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"740a858c-071e-4728-a400-359c49a4dac8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-12-06T19:32:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdAqFjAceRyikADWcSaTayA","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":[2085,91,31,2586,41,209,2166],"class_list":["post-46071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-united-kingdom"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46071","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=46071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46076,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46071\/revisions\/46076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}