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Apple fined $3b by EU for using app store to thwart competition

Tripp Mickle and Adam Satariano

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San Francisco | Apple on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) was fined €1.8 billion ($3 billion) by European Union regulators for thwarting competition among music streaming rivals, a severe punishment levied against the tech giant in a long-simmering battle over the powerful role it plays as gatekeeper of the App Store.

The penalty, announced by the EU antitrust regulator, is the culmination of a five-year investigation set in motion by one of its biggest rivals, Spotify. Regulators said Apple illegally used its App Store dominance to box out rivals.

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