Finalperiodic penalty · Antitrust (periodic penalty)
Apple's €50M in weekly ACM penalties over dating-app payments
€50M
≈ $54M at the time
Authority for Consumers and Markets
Netherlands · 2022
Status: Final
What happened
The Dutch ACM levied ten consecutive weekly penalties of €5M after Apple repeatedly failed to comply with an order to let dating apps use alternative payment systems.
How it affected users
Dutch dating-app users were locked into Apple's payment system and its commission-inflated prices.
Status timeline
Mar 21, 2022
Penalty announced.
Sources
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Apple's €50M in weekly ACM penalties over dating-app payments," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2022-03-21. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-netherlands-dating-2022/