ICLE Research Cited in Gadget Hacks on Apple’s App Store Changes in Brazil
Gadget Hacks cited ICLE research in a piece on Apple’s rollout of alternative app stores in Brazil following a cease-and-desist agreement with CADE, Brazil’s competition authority. The article drew on ICLE’s analysis of CADE’s antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store payment processing and anti-steering rules. The underlying research was conducted by Senior Scholar for Competition Policy Mario Zúñiga.
Read the full piece here. Read the ICLE paper here.
The rollout follows a cease-and-desist agreement Apple signed with CADE, Brazil’s competition authority, last December, ending a three-year investigation into Apple’s mandatory payment processing and anti-steering rules. CADE’s tribunal had described Apple’s model as a “closed and vertically integrated ecosystem” that compelled developers to rely on the App Store and locked consumers in through switching costs, according to an International Center for Law and Economics analysis published last month. Non-compliance with the settlement carries fines of up to $27 million, The Next Web reported.