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The European Union ’s flagship market contestability regulation has been in strength on a handful of tech giantsfor month . Since March , the bloc has had undefendable investigations on several gatekeepers . But it ’s Apple that will face the first Digital Markets Act ( DMA ) amercement , Bloombergreports , citing people intimate with the suit .
Apple ’s App Store rule are in the frame . InJune , the bloc partake in preliminary finding with the ship’s company , warning that developers should be free to inform users of alternate purchasing routes . However , Apple has persist indevisingnew feesin a dictation to work around DMA requirements to let developer avoid its usual App Store excision .
Bloomberg ’s account say the EU decisiveness on the event is still being blueprint but could land later this month . It does not specify the size of the amercement but the DMA let for penalty of up to 10 % of orbicular annual overturn so it could translate into ten of jillion of dollars give Apple ’s revenue .
Apple has been contacted for comment .
