Mercado Libre (“Meli”), the Latin American e-commerce and financial services giant, filed antitrust complaints against Apple in these two countries alleging anticompetitive behavior around Apple’s policies and practices in its App Store. The Primary Restrictions Imposed by Apple Mercado Libre’s complaints focus on two key restrictions imposed by Apple that, according to the company, undermine […]
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Apple is facing four antitrust investigations in Europe related to its App Store. Epic Games filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the company for anticompetitive practices in the App Store and Germany, Japan and Australia have shown interest in these developments. The EU probe may bring more than $5 billion in fines and changes to the Apple’s App Store.
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After three days of debates and discussions in Cartagena, it is clear that the priority for antitrust authorities is how to apply competition law in digital markets. Non-horizontal mergers, remedies in unilateral conducts and ex-officio cartel probes were also some of the relevant topics of this year’s ICN.
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Spotify filed on March 13 an antitrust complaint against Apple for allegedly leveraging its market power on the app store to limit Spotify’s access to iOS users. Yet, EU precedents on music streaming app services suggest that Apple may not be dominant in some relevant markets and if this is still true, Apple’s practices, while damaging for Spotify, won’t be anticompetitive.
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Amazon.com is facing three antitrust investigations across Europe. Germany and Austria opened probes against the company in 4Q and the European Commission is conducting a preliminary investigation over Amazon’s use of third-party sellers’ data. A $5 billion fine similar to the one imposed on Google isn’t likely given Amazon’s revenue in the market, but what it is at stake here is more than just money.
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