The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are starting to look into Apple’s new subscription service. Right now “looking into” the matter is as far as it goes and it may not ever develop into a formal investigation or any actions against Apple. The European Commission is also carefully monitoring the situation as well.
The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are looking to see if Apple’s new subscription service is in violation of any U.S. antitrust laws since it appears as if it is forcing the media companies’ customers into using iTunes as a payment service thus giving Apple a 30 percent profit cut for themselves. The other issue is that the publishers will not have the ability to link to outside sources for users to get their content and will also not be able to have different prices amongst the different sources for their content which could […]
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