{"id":49752,"date":"2025-10-23T15:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49752"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:01:49","slug":"regulatory-complaint-about-app-store-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/23\/regulatory-complaint-about-app-store-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Complaint About App Store in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/20\/apple-faces-app-store-challenges-in-china\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/20\/apple-faces-app-store-challenges-in-china\/\">\n<p>A law firm in China has filed a new antitrust complaint accusing Apple of abusing its control over iOS app distribution and payments, escalating a dispute that previously failed in civil court by seeking action from state regulators instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/china-consumers-file-antitrust-complaint-against-apple-over-app-store-practices-2025-10-20\/\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Wang has now re-opened the case more broadly via a different channel, telling the media that the new administrative complaint is intended to prompt regulatory enforcement rather than a civil judgment. Unlike the 2021 filing, this complaint incorporates a comparative argument based on changes made in other jurisdictions. The filing asserts that Apple is continuing to operate a closed  App Store  in China while permitting alternative payment methods and sideloading in the European Union following enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and a U.S. court ruling that obliges Apple to allow outside payment links.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/apple-in-china\/\">Apple in China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/chinese-app-store-antitrust-probe\/\">Chinese App Store Antitrust Probe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: A law firm in China has filed a new antitrust complaint accusing Apple of abusing its control over iOS app distribution and payments, escalating a dispute that previously failed in civil court by seeking action from state regulators instead, Reuters reports. [&#8230;] Wang has now re-opened the case more broadly via a different [&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":"2025-10-23T19:01:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"075adfaa-0f24-4cdb-8664-2d26b25a9970","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-10-23T19:01:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AB1rfqg8kTNuGZC0mslqZcA","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":[2085,91,1547,31,2741,209],"class_list":["post-49752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49752","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=49752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49753,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49752\/revisions\/49753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}