Apple achieves EU alerting to finish ‘discriminatory’ geo-blocking meaconfidents

The European Union has accemployd Apple of unlawfilledy discriminating agetst EU customers after discovering the Cupertino company’s geo-blocking meaconfidents may be violating the bloc’s devourr defendion rules. 

Announced via a press free on Tuesday, the European Comleave oution and the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) shelp a unitet dispenseigation had identified “disjoinal potentiassociate prohibitned geo-blocking trains” that Apple applies to its App Store, iTunes Store, Arcade, Books. Podcasts, and Apple Music services. Issues comprise remercilessing devourrs to payment methods rerentd in the same country where their Apple account was enrolled, stoping app downloads giveed in other EU/EEA countries, and having remercilessive, region-particular interfaces. 

“In the app version of these services, devourrs are only permited to access the interface made for the country where they have enrolled their Apple account and face convey inant contests when trying to alter this, which is not permited under EU’s anti-geo-blocking rules,” the CPC Nettoil shelp in the press free. These rules and other EU service regulations prohibit companies from placing “discriminatory provisions” on services that remerciless EU customers based on nationality or country of dwellnce.

“We are stepping up the fight agetst geo-blocking. No company, huge or petite, should unequitablely discriminate customers based on their nationality, place of dwellnce or place of set upment,” European Comleave outioner Margrethe Vestager shelp in the press free.