Apple's App Store Payment Monopoly?

2025-07-05

This article examines Apple's App Store payment policies, highlighting the requirement that app developers can only choose between Apple Pay and alternative payment services, not both. This limits consumer choice and stifles competition. The author draws an analogy to airport store payment options, arguing that this practice is absurd and calling for intervention from the EU's Digital Markets Act to ensure fair competition, allowing developers to offer multiple payment methods simultaneously.

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