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Apple ran out of EU courts — every challenge to its App Store obligations dismissed
Apple's three legal challenges to EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper obligations were dismissed by the General Court, making alternative app stores, interoperability, and anti-steering provisions permanent regulatory requirements for iOS in Europe. The ruling also establishes that gatekeepers cannot challenge DMA obligations pre-emptively, creating a cleaner enforcement pathway for regulators across all designated platforms.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building an alternative app store, payment processor, or messaging interop layer for EU iOS users, Apple's last legal defense has been exhausted — this market is now permanently yours to sell into. The court also just cleared regulators to move faster against Google, Meta and others on the same obligations, so the same doors open across multiple platforms simultaneously.
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Topics: Enterprise Software · dma-gatekeeper · app-store-distribution · eu-regulation · interoperability · alternative-app-stores