Apple hit with Valentine’s Day first-rate of $5.6M over Dutch relationship app guidelines
Apple hit with Valentine’s Day first-rate of $5.6M over Dutch relationship app guidelines Apple has been hit with its fourth great of $5.6 million for failing to comply with new App Store charge regulations in the Netherlands. In a statement, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets says that the “revised conditions that Apple has imposed on courting-app providers are unreasonable, and create an useless barrier.” On Valentine’s Day however, the ACM explains that Apple nonetheless isn't always in compliance with its regulations in regards to alternative payment options for dating programs inside the Netherlands. The regulators give an explanation for that Apple has imposed a “good sized number of situations” on dating app developers who wish to provide alternative payment answers apart from Apple’s personal In-App Purchase system. Interestingly, the ACM does not deal with the 27% fee that Apple has announced it plans to rate on those transactions. Apple made this dec...