Apple Complies With Dutch Watchdog Ruling on Dating App Payment Options
Apple said on Saturday it would allow developers of dating apps in the Netherlands to offer non-Apple payment options to their users, complying with an order from the country market regulator to do so on January 15 or face penalties.
The country’s consumer and market authorities found in a decision published on December 24 that Apple misused its market position by requiring developers of dating apps, including the owner of Tinder Match Group, to specifically use Apple’s internal payment system.
Apple’s practice of requiring developers to use its system and pay 15-30 percent commissions on digital purchases has been observed under regulators and legislators around the world, but the Dutch decision applies only to the Netherlands and only to dating services.
In a post on its developers’ blog on Saturday, Apple said it would abide by the decision and introduce “two new options that work specifically for dating apps in the Netherlands App Store that provide options for processing additional user payments”.
However it noted that developers were not required to use non-Apple tools, and warned that Apple would not be able to securely assist or reimburse payments that occur outside of its systems because it “could not directly control them”.
Apple opposes Dutch decision.
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