Apple, Amazon Complaints in Europe | Was Approved Overuse of Market Dominant

According to the Financial Times, Beijing time December 14 reported that Spotify, Deezer and other European digital platform, called on Brussels to strengthen supervision of large US technology companies, including Apple and Amazon, accusing them of unfair competition, damage The interests of small companies that rely on them to do business.

In a letter to Juncker, the European Commission chairman, Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Deezer CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht called for Brussels to step up Overseeing the 'abuse of one's dominant position' platform to ensure 'fair market competition' Spotify, Deezer are streaming media music services.

Spotify, Deezer, and several European game developers and publishers complained that because Apple had its own streaming music service, customers were at a disadvantage when they purchased their services through the Apple App Store.

Spotify said that, for example, Apple pulls 30% when users buy their Premium service through the App Store.

These European companies have also complained that the platform does not give them full access to user information.

Apple and Amazon did not comment.

Complaints from companies such as Spotify and Deezer have long been part of smaller technology companies who condemned large technology companies for acting as Internet gatekeepers.

The complaint comes as the European Commission plans to make laws that regulate the relationship between large technology companies and application developers and vendors selling products and services on their platforms.

The European Commission will set out clear guidelines for regulating how large technology companies can communicate with their customers to amend service agreements and provide relief to companies that have been offloaded or ranked down for no apparent reason.

In June, the European Commission issued a record 2.4 billion euros ticket to Google because of its preference for home-shopping services in its search results. The Foundem complaint, the UK shopping comparison website, prompted the European Commission to investigate Google.

Spotify, Deezer and other letters sent to the European Commission, called on the European Commission to develop 'clear and enforceable regulations to curb unfair competition in the platform.Regulations should include but not limited to explicit requirements, only clear requirements are not sufficient to ensure that the platform Can be a digital economy channel, will not be 'guard'.

The laws and regulations governing the business conduct of the Internet platform are part of the broader 'single market digital' reforms being implemented by the European Commission.

Brussels has stepped up efforts to crack down on illegal content on platforms such as Facebook but no laws have yet been enacted, and the European Commission will decide next summer whether it needs legislation to combat violence and hate speech.

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