Apple and Meta were slapped with fines of hundreds of millions of dollars on Wednesday for violating the new European Union Competition Law that aims to stop the power of the great technology.
The EU antitrust regulators advanced to Apple $ 570 million for prevention applications manufacturers, from users who indicate cheaper options outside their App Store.
Meanwhile, goal was beaten with $ 230 million because it forced Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them, said the guard dog.
The sanctions were the first to impose on large technology companies under the EU digital market law, which was adopted in 2022.
The sanctions followed a one year investigation by the European Commission on whether the two companies complied with the historical legilation, which seeks to allow smaller rivals dominated by the largest companies.
Apple has already promised to challenge the failure.
“Today’s ads are another example of the European Commission unfairly directed to Apple in a series of decisions that are bad for the privacy and safety of our users, bad for products and force us to give in a statement.
Goal, meanwhile, hit the fine.
“The European Commission is trying to harm successful American companies while allowing Chinese and European companies to operate under different standards,” said a spokesman.
“It is not just a fine; the commission forces us to change our business model, effective imposing a multimillionaire rate to the goal while demanding us to sacrifice a lower service.”
Decisions were expected to arrive in March, but it is said that the authorities were delayed in the middle of the growing warfare of President Trump.
With publication cables
