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British court to hear £1bn suit against Apple for breaching competition law

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A British court will on Monday begin hearing in the suit against the United States tech giant Apple for alleged breach of competition law.

The plaintiffs had in a petition filed in May 2021 alleged that Apple abused the dominant position of its app store in the United Kingdom.

Rachael Kent, an academic at Kings College London, and the law firm Hausfeld & Co., filed the action which Apple has dismissed as “meritless.”

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They claimed that Apple had excluded all other app stores from iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads.

The plaintiffs are demanding over £1 billion in damages and claimed that approximately 20 million Apple customers may have been overcharged as a result of the company’s prohibition on competing app store platforms.

Apple’s 30% fee for programmes bought through its App Store is also the subject of the claim, which claims that it is “at the expense of ordinary consumers.”

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