{"id":47145,"date":"2025-03-21T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47145"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:43:52","slug":"apple-under-german-antitrust-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/apple-under-german-antitrust-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Under German Antitrust Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-18\/apple-loses-top-court-fight-against-german-antitrust-crackdown\">Karin Matussek<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=43410247\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-18\/apple-loses-top-court-fight-against-german-antitrust-crackdown\"><p>The judges on Tuesday said the Federal Cartel Office was right to find that the iPhone maker&rsquo;s footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Apple was attempting to topple a May 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/GAJzw\/https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/RSMWC6DWX2PS\">decision<\/a> by the German antitrust watchdog, which subjected it to the so-called 19a rules on the grounds that its strong position in digital markets could threaten competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-loses-german-antitrust-appeal-opening-door-greater-controls-2025-03-18\/\">Ursula Knapp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-loses-german-antitrust-appeal-opening-door-greater-controls-2025-03-18\/\"><p>With that, Apple joins Google parent Alphabet, and Facebook owner Meta, on Germany&rsquo;s growing list of tech giants subject to possible measures curbing their dominance.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>&ldquo;Our ongoing review of Apple&rsquo;s tracking regulation for third-party apps is therefore on a solid footing, and we are working flat out on this case and other cases against the major internet companies,&rdquo; [Mundt] added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/dma-compliance-watch-and-headphone-interoperability\/\">DMA Compliance: Watch and Headphone Interoperability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/29\/german-antitrust-probe-into-app-tracking-transparency\/\">German Antitrust Probe Into App Tracking Transparency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karin Matussek (Hacker News): The judges on Tuesday said the Federal Cartel Office was right to find that the iPhone maker&rsquo;s footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight.[&#8230;]Apple was attempting to topple a May 2023 decision by the German antitrust watchdog, which subjected it to the so-called 19a rules on the grounds that [&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":"2025-03-21T20:16:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"2ffb4901-5834-47d8-a809-582a96d86a07","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-03-21T20:43:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AL_tJAVg0R9ioCVgqlthqBw","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":[2085,2065,38,2240,31,209],"class_list":["post-47145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-app-tracking-transparency","tag-apple","tag-germany","tag-ios","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145","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=47145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47160,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145\/revisions\/47160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}