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Apple lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany, the Federal Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday, following years of debate over the company’s market position.
Federal judges backed the German cartel office’s 2023 designation of Apple as a “company of paramount cross-market significance for competition”.
With that, Apple joins Google parent Alphabet and Facebook owner Meta on Germany’s growing list of tech giants subject to possible measures curbing their dominance.
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