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苹果因应用内支付问题在印度遭遇反垄断诉讼
这些指控与苹果在欧盟面临的一个案件类似，欧盟监管机构去年对苹果对付费数字内容的分销征收30%的应用内费用和其他限制展开了调查。
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苹果(aapl . o:行情)路透社看到的消息人士和文件称，苹果在印度面临反垄断挑战，据称该公司滥用其在应用市场的主导地位，强迫开发者使用其专有的应用内购买系统。
这些指控类似于一起案件苹果去年，欧盟监管机构对苹果对付费数字内容分销征收30%的应用内费用和其他限制展开了调查。
印度的这起诉讼是由一家鲜为人知的非营利组织提起的，该组织认为，苹果高达30%的收费提高了应用程序开发者和客户的成本，损害了竞争，同时也成为了市场进入的障碍。
“30%佣金的存在意味着一些应用开发者永远无法进入市场……这也可能导致消费者受到伤害，”路透社(Reuters)看到的这份文件称。
与印度法院案件不同，印度竞争委员会(CCI)审查的案件文件和细节是不公开的。苹果和CCI均未回复记者的置评请求。
知情人士称，在未来几周，CCI将审查此案，并可能命令其调查部门进行更广泛的调查，或者如果发现调查没有任何价值，就将其完全驳回。
“很有可能会下令进行调查，这也是因为欧盟一直在调查此事，”该人士表示。由于案件细节尚未公开，他不愿透露姓名。
原告是总部位于印度西部拉贾斯坦邦的非营利组织“我们一起战斗社会”，该组织在一份声明中告诉路透社，为了保护印度消费者和创业公司，他们提起了诉讼。
在印度，尽管截至2020年底，印度5.2亿部智能手机中只有2%安装了苹果iOS系统，其余都使用安卓系统，但Counterpoint Research表示，过去五年，苹果在印度的智能手机市场增长了一倍多。
苹果在印度的案件发生之际，韩国议会本周批准了一项法案，禁止Alphabet Inc .等大型应用商店运营商谷歌以及苹果禁止软件开发商使用他们的支付系统。
“交易中间人”
苹果和谷歌等公司表示，他们的费用涵盖了应用商店提供的安全和营销福利，但许多公司不同意这种说法。
去年，在印度创业公司公开对谷歌收取类似的应用内支付费用表示担忧后，CCI下令对其进行调查，这是对该公司进行更广泛反垄断调查的一部分。调查仍在进行中。
印度针对苹果的反垄断案件还称，苹果限制开发商与用户沟通以提供支付解决方案是反竞争的，也损害了印度支付处理商的利益，这些支付处理商提供的服务收费较低，在1-5%之间。
该文件还称，苹果通过限制开发者告知用户其他购买可能性，损害了竞争对手的利益，从而损害了“应用开发者与客户的关系，因为苹果在每笔应用内部交易中都扮演了中间人的角色”。
最近几周，苹果放松了对全球开发者的一些限制，比如允许他们使用电子邮件等通信方式共享iOS应用程序之外的支付方式信息。
周三，苹果表示，它将允许一些应用程序为客户提供应用内链接，以绕过苹果的购买系统，但苹果仍然禁止在应用程序中使用其他形式的支付选项。
印度律师事务所Dua Associates竞争法合伙人高塔姆•沙希(Gautam Shahi)表示，即使企业在提起反垄断诉讼后改变了行为，CCI仍会调查过去的行为。
“CCI将调查近年来是否违反了法律，消费者和竞争是否受到了损害，”Shahi说。
CCI计划加快所有涉及大型科技公司的案件，比如亚马逊据路透社报道，谷歌将通过部署更多官员，并在更严格的内部期限前完成工作
这些指控类似于一起案件苹果去年，欧盟监管机构对苹果对付费数字内容分销征收30%的应用内费用和其他限制展开了调查。
印度的这起诉讼是由一家鲜为人知的非营利组织提起的，该组织认为，苹果高达30%的收费提高了应用程序开发者和客户的成本，损害了竞争，同时也成为了市场进入的障碍。
与印度法院案件不同，印度竞争委员会(CCI)审查的案件文件和细节是不公开的。苹果和CCI均未回复记者的置评请求。
知情人士称，在未来几周，CCI将审查此案，并可能命令其调查部门进行更广泛的调查，或者如果发现调查没有任何价值，就将其完全驳回。
“很有可能会下令进行调查，这也是因为欧盟一直在调查此事，”该人士表示。由于案件细节尚未公开，他不愿透露姓名。
原告是总部位于印度西部拉贾斯坦邦的非营利组织“我们一起战斗社会”，该组织在一份声明中告诉路透社，为了保护印度消费者和创业公司，他们提起了诉讼。
在印度，尽管截至2020年底，印度5.2亿部智能手机中只有2%安装了苹果iOS系统，其余都使用安卓系统，但Counterpoint Research表示，过去五年，苹果在印度的智能手机市场增长了一倍多。
“交易中间人”
苹果和谷歌等公司表示，他们的费用涵盖了应用商店提供的安全和营销福利，但许多公司不同意这种说法。
去年，在印度创业公司公开对谷歌收取类似的应用内支付费用表示担忧后，CCI下令对其进行调查，这是对该公司进行更广泛反垄断调查的一部分。调查仍在进行中。
印度针对苹果的反垄断案件还称，苹果限制开发商与用户沟通以提供支付解决方案是反竞争的，也损害了印度支付处理商的利益，这些支付处理商提供的服务收费较低，在1-5%之间。
该文件还称，苹果通过限制开发者告知用户其他购买可能性，损害了竞争对手的利益，从而损害了“应用开发者与客户的关系，因为苹果在每笔应用内部交易中都扮演了中间人的角色”。
最近几周，苹果放松了对全球开发者的一些限制，比如允许他们使用电子邮件等通信方式共享iOS应用程序之外的支付方式信息。
周三，苹果表示，它将允许一些应用程序为客户提供应用内链接，以绕过苹果的购买系统，但苹果仍然禁止在应用程序中使用其他形式的支付选项。
印度律师事务所Dua Associates竞争法合伙人高塔姆•沙希(Gautam Shahi)表示，即使企业在提起反垄断诉讼后改变了行为，CCI仍会调查过去的行为。
“CCI将调查近年来是否违反了法律，消费者和竞争是否受到了损害，”Shahi说。
CCI计划加快所有涉及大型科技公司的案件，比如亚马逊据路透社报道，谷歌将通过部署更多官员，并在更严格的内部期限前完成工作
Apple Inc<\/a> is facing an antitrust challenge in India for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary in-app purchase system, according to a source and documents seen by Reuters.
The allegations are similar to a case Apple<\/a> faces in the European Union, where regulators last year started an investigation into Apple's imposition of an in-app fee of 30% for distribution of paid digital content and other restrictions.
The Indian case was filed by a little-known, non-profit group which argues Apple's fee of up to 30% hurts competition by raising costs for app developers and customers, while also acting as a barrier to market entry.
The allegations are similar to a case Apple<\/a> faces in the European Union, where regulators last year started an investigation into Apple's imposition of an in-app fee of 30% for distribution of paid digital content and other restrictions.
The Indian case was filed by a little-known, non-profit group which argues Apple's fee of up to 30% hurts competition by raising costs for app developers and customers, while also acting as a barrier to market entry.
<\/div><\/div>\"The existence of the 30% commission means that some app developers will never make it to the market ... This could also result in consumer harm,\" said the filing, which has been seen by Reuters.
Unlike Indian court cases, filings and details of cases reviewed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) are not made public. Apple and the CCI did not respond to a request for comment.
In the coming weeks, the CCI will review the case and could order its investigations arm to conduct a wider probe, or dismiss it altogether if it finds no merit in it, said a source familiar with the matter.
\"There are high chances that an investigation can be ordered, also because the EU has been probing this,\" said the person, who declined to be identified as the case details are not public.
The complainant, non-profit \"Together We Fight Society\" which is based in India's western state of Rajasthan, told Reuters in a statement it filed the case in the interest of protecting Indian consumers and startups.
In India, though Apple's iOS powered just about 2% of 520 million smartphones by end-2020 - with the rest using Android - Counterpoint Research says the U.S. firm's smartphone base in the country has more than doubled in the last five years.
Unlike Indian court cases, filings and details of cases reviewed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) are not made public. Apple and the CCI did not respond to a request for comment.
In the coming weeks, the CCI will review the case and could order its investigations arm to conduct a wider probe, or dismiss it altogether if it finds no merit in it, said a source familiar with the matter.
\"There are high chances that an investigation can be ordered, also because the EU has been probing this,\" said the person, who declined to be identified as the case details are not public.
The complainant, non-profit \"Together We Fight Society\" which is based in India's western state of Rajasthan, told Reuters in a statement it filed the case in the interest of protecting Indian consumers and startups.
In India, though Apple's iOS powered just about 2% of 520 million smartphones by end-2020 - with the rest using Android - Counterpoint Research says the U.S. firm's smartphone base in the country has more than doubled in the last five years.
<\/div><\/div>The Apple case in India comes just as South Korea's parliament this week approved a bill that bans major app store operators like Alphabet Inc's Google<\/a> and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems.
\"MIDDLEMAN IN TRANSACTIONS\"<\/strong>
Companies like Apple and Google say their fee covers the security and marketing benefits their app stores provide, but many companies disagree.
Last year, after Indian startups publicly voiced concern over a similar in-app payments fee charged by Google, the CCI ordered an investigation into it as part of a broader antitrust probe into the company. That investigation is ongoing.
The India antitrust case against Apple also alleges that its restrictions on how developers communicate with users to offer payment solutions are anti-competitive, and also hurt the country's payment processors who offer services at lower charges in the range of 1-5%.
Apple has hurt competitors by restricting developers from informing users of alternative purchasing possibilities, thereby harming \"app developers' relationship with their customers by inserting itself as middleman in every in-app transaction,\" the filing added.
In recent weeks, Apple has loosened some of the restrictions for developers globally, like allowing them to use communications - such as email - to share information about payment alternatives outside of their iOS app.
And on Wednesday, it said it would allow some apps to provide customers an in-app link to bypass Apple's purchase system, though the U.S. firm retained a ban on allowing other forms of payment options inside apps.
Gautam Shahi, a competition law partner at Indian law firm Dua Associates, said that even if companies change their behaviour after an antitrust case in filed, the CCI still looks at past conduct.
\"The CCI will look at recent years to see if the law was violated and if consumers and competition were harmed,\" said Shahi.
The CCI has plans to speed up all cases involving big technology firms such as Amazon<\/a> and Google by deploying additional officers and working to more stringent internal deadlines, Reuters reported
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\"MIDDLEMAN IN TRANSACTIONS\"<\/strong>
Companies like Apple and Google say their fee covers the security and marketing benefits their app stores provide, but many companies disagree.
Last year, after Indian startups publicly voiced concern over a similar in-app payments fee charged by Google, the CCI ordered an investigation into it as part of a broader antitrust probe into the company. That investigation is ongoing.
The India antitrust case against Apple also alleges that its restrictions on how developers communicate with users to offer payment solutions are anti-competitive, and also hurt the country's payment processors who offer services at lower charges in the range of 1-5%.
Apple has hurt competitors by restricting developers from informing users of alternative purchasing possibilities, thereby harming \"app developers' relationship with their customers by inserting itself as middleman in every in-app transaction,\" the filing added.
In recent weeks, Apple has loosened some of the restrictions for developers globally, like allowing them to use communications - such as email - to share information about payment alternatives outside of their iOS app.
And on Wednesday, it said it would allow some apps to provide customers an in-app link to bypass Apple's purchase system, though the U.S. firm retained a ban on allowing other forms of payment options inside apps.
Gautam Shahi, a competition law partner at Indian law firm Dua Associates, said that even if companies change their behaviour after an antitrust case in filed, the CCI still looks at past conduct.
\"The CCI will look at recent years to see if the law was violated and if consumers and competition were harmed,\" said Shahi.
The CCI has plans to speed up all cases involving big technology firms such as Amazon<\/a> and Google by deploying additional officers and working to more stringent internal deadlines, Reuters reported
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