{"id":46732,"date":"2025-02-13T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46732"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:14:37","slug":"chinese-app-store-antitrust-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/chinese-app-store-antitrust-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese App Store Antitrust Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/02\/05\/apple-potential-antitrust-probe-china\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/02\/05\/apple-potential-antitrust-probe-china\/\"><p>China&rsquo;s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) is said to have been critically examining Apple&rsquo;s practices and holding discussions with the company since last year, specifically about its 30% commission on in-app purchases and restrictions on external payment services, according to the outlet&rsquo;s sources.<\/p><p>Chinese regulators are said to be particularly focused on whether Apple&rsquo;s fees for local developers are unreasonably high. They&rsquo;re also examining if the company&rsquo;s prohibition of third-party app stores and payment methods stifles competition and negatively impacts Chinese consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: China&rsquo;s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) is said to have been critically examining Apple&rsquo;s practices and holding discussions with the company since last year, specifically about its 30% commission on in-app purchases and restrictions on external payment services, according to the outlet&rsquo;s sources.Chinese regulators are said to be particularly focused on whether [&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":"2025-02-13T20:14:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"f0d1198c-b88b-4be2-a9ed-0b85810d3a60","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-13T20:14:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8NEZjLiLS-Kp7QuFgQ06YA","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":[2085,91,1547,31,2586,209],"class_list":["post-46732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46732","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=46732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46733,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46732\/revisions\/46733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}