Apple’s compliance with the DMA may not satisfy regulators
The Digital Markets Act forced companies like Apple to open up opportunities for more competition, but the legislation has resulted in new problems with monetization and security concerns.
“There are things that we take a keen interest in, for instance, if the new Apple fee structure will de facto not make it in any way attractive to use the benefits of the DMA,” Vestager said in the interview. “That kind of thing is what we will be investigating.”
The fee structure in question is Apple’s Core Technology Fee, which requires developers with over 1 million app downloads to pay half a euro for each new download annually. The structure has caused worry amongst developers that build free apps, which could be financially ruined by such a fee.
“I would think of it as unwise to say that the services are not safe to use, because that has nothing to do with the DMA,” Vestager said about the warnings. “The DMA is there to open the market for other service providers to get to you and how your service provider of your operating system, how they will make sure that it is safe is for them to decide.”
