In March 2024, the tech giant was fined $2.01bn for limiting competition in music streaming through its App Store policies.

The penalty, under the tough new Digital Markets Act (DMA), is set to come just months after Cupertino, California-based Apple was hit with a €1.8 billion (US$2 billion) fine for similar abuses under the bloc’s traditional competition rules – involving music streaming service Spotify.

Mashable reported in June that the Europe Commission was investigating Apple for breaching its DMA laws, which went into effect in November 2022. Apple was previously hit with a w