The European Commission fined Apple and Meta 500 million euros ($570 million) and 200 million euros ($228 million), respectively, after ruling that both companies restricted customer choices, the executive body announced on April 22.
Both companies were found to have violated the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures that large “gatekeeper” platforms operate in a “fair way” and allow room for competitors.
Apple was found to have run afoul of anti-steering obligations under the DMA. The provision requires that developers distributing their apps via the company’s App Store are able to “inform customers, free of charge, of alternative offers outside the App Store, steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.”…