{"id":1433,"date":"2021-05-11T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/apple-accused-of-breaking-uk-competition-law-by-overcharging-for-apps\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:57:21","slug":"apple-accused-of-breaking-uk-competition-law-by-overcharging-for-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/apple-accused-of-breaking-uk-competition-law-by-overcharging-for-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 19.6 million users could be eligible for compensation, with damages of \u00a31.5bn sought<\/p>\n<p>Apple is facing a billionpound legal claim after being accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging millions of people for apps on its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>The tech company has been accused of deliberately shutting out the competition in the store and forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating \u201cexcessive\u201d profits for itself in the process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/11\/apple-accused-of-breaking-uk-competition-law-by-overcharging-for-apps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/04072f681bd5c236860146c0d064a64a09ed35de\/464_747_6926_4158\/master\/6926.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=74fbf98c14155f6f8594f44ac2936bb4\" title=\"Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps\" \/>As many as 19.6 million users could be eligible for compensation, with damages of \u00a31.5bn sought<br \/>\nApple is facing a billionpound legal claim after being accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging millions of people for apps on its App Store.<br \/>\nThe tech company has been accused of deliberately shutting out the competition in the store and forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating \u201cexcessive\u201d profits for itself in the process. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 19.6 million users could be eligible for compensation, with damages of \u00a31.5bn sought Apple is facing a billionpound legal claim after being accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging millions of people for apps on its App Store. The tech company has been accused of deliberately shutting out the competition in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/apple-accused-of-breaking-uk-competition-law-by-overcharging-for-apps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}