The European Commission launched a pair of formal antitrust investigations of Apple in June 2020. Now there’s a development. The Commission has sent Apple a ‘Statement of Objections’ that zeroes in on music streaming. It’s a follow-up to a previous Statement of Objections sent in April 2021. Today’s missive takes the in-app purchasing issue off the table: the Commission “does no longer take a position as to the legality of the IAP obligation for the purposes of this antitrust investigation”.
Source: EC narrows its Apple music-streaming investigation to ‘anti-steering’ issues – Music Ally