Troubles for Apple just keeps piling on. After the report that Korea could make Apple pay $46 million in undeclared benefits and the company facing charges over NFC chip in iPhones and Apple Pay Europe’s antitrust regulators, Dutch antitrust authority has now found the Cupertino-based giant involved in anti-competitive behavior.

According to the latest report from Reuters, the Dutch antitrust authority has found that Apple’s rules requiring software developers to use its own in-app payment system are anti-competitive and has ordered it to make changes.

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While Apple is facing similar challenges in several countries, the Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) last month informed the US-based technology giant of its decision, making it the first antitrust regulator to make a finding of Apple having abused market power in the app store.

Interestingly, ACM has not levied any fine against Apple but has demanded changes to the in-app payment system. The decision is expected to get published in the coming weeks.

For those who are unaware, Apple has an in-app-store payment policy, which requires the application developers to exclusively use Apple’s payment system where the company takes out commissions, ranging from 15 percent to 30 percent.

The Dutch antitrust authority initiated an investigation in 2019 to find out if Apple’s practices amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position. However, it later reduced the scope of the investigation to focus only on dating market apps.

It was after a complaint filed by the Match Group, which owns the popular dating platform Tinder. The company had said that Apple’s rules were hindering it from direct communications with its customers about payments.

Recently, South Korea enacted a law that bars app store operators from forcing developers to use their official payment systems. Apple as well as Google are due to respond this month on how they plan to comply with the new rule.

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