{"id":50330,"date":"2025-12-08T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50330"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:06:52","slug":"dutch-antitrust-lawsuit-over-app-store-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/dutch-antitrust-lawsuit-over-app-store-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Antitrust Lawsuit Over App Store Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/02\/dutch-app-store-antitrust-case-proceeds\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/02\/dutch-app-store-antitrust-case-proceeds\/\"><p>Apple could ultimately have to pay up to an estimated 637 million euros to address the damage suffered by 14 million iPhone and iPad users in the Netherlands.<\/p><p>The lawsuit dates back to 2022, when two Dutch consumer foundations (Right to Consumer Justice and  App Store  Claims) accused Apple of abusing its dominant market position and charging developers excessive fees. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Dutch  iPhone  and  iPad  users, and it claimed that Apple&rsquo;s 30 percent commission inflated prices for apps and in-app purchases.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The civil  App Store  fee case that Apple is now facing in the Netherlands is separate from the dating app case that was levied against Apple by ACM, the Dutch competition authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/apple-funded-study-on-eu-alternative-app-store-business-terms\/\">Apple-Funded Study on EU Alternative App Store Business Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/netherlands-and-apple-reach-external-payments-agreement\/\">Netherlands and Apple Reach External Payments Agreement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/acm-still-unsatisfied-with-apples-dating-apps-rules\/\">ACM Still Unsatisfied With Apple&rsquo;s Dating Apps Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/24\/apple-submitted-new-proposal-to-acm\/\">Apple Submitted New Proposal to ACM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/01\/apple-says-its-complying-with-acm\/\">Apple Says It&rsquo;s Complying With ACM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/18\/dutch-acm-wants-existing-apps-to-support-external-payments\/\">Dutch ACM Wants Existing Apps to Support External Payments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/netherlands-rejects-storekit-external-purchase-entitlement-plan\/\">Netherlands Rejects StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/dutch-anti-steering-ruling-for-dating-apps\/\">Dutch Anti-Steering Ruling for Dating Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/08\/dutch-antitrust-watchdog-wants-iap-changes\/\">Dutch Antitrust Watchdog Wants IAP Changes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple could ultimately have to pay up to an estimated 637 million euros to address the damage suffered by 14 million iPhone and iPad users in the Netherlands.The lawsuit dates back to 2022, when two Dutch consumer foundations (Right to Consumer Justice and App Store Claims) accused Apple of abusing its dominant market [&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":"2025-12-08T21:06:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"eabe3524-9ec8-4141-9a49-ab30bb38788b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-08T21:06:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A6r41JJ7IQUGaSaswuzh4iw","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":[2085,91,38,1927,31,2078,41,209,2126],"class_list":["post-50330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-netherlands"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50330","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=50330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50331,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50330\/revisions\/50331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}