An order posted on Saturday tells Apple to hand over financial information to India’s competition regulator. It also tells the regulator not to issue a final ruling before 15 July.
The Delhi High Court told Apple over the weekend to ‘fully cooperate’ with the Competition Commission of India in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the App Store.
In the same order, posted to the court’s website on Saturday, the bench told the CCI not to issue a final ruling before 15 July. The company had asked the court to suspend the investigation entirely while it challenges India’s penalty-calculation rules. It did not get that.
The CCI’s investigation, dating to a 2021 complaint joined by Match Group and several Indian startups, found in 2024 that Apple had abused its dominant position in the iPhone apps market by requiring developers to use its proprietary in-app payment system.
The regulator has been seeking Apple’s financial information for penalty calculation ever since, and Apple has been refusing because India’s 2024 amendment to the Competition Act, which permits the regulator to impose fines against global rather than domestic turnover, is itself the subject of a separate Apple challenge.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
