According to Bloomberg News on Friday, Apple Inc. plans to contest the European Union's decision to include the App Store in its entirety on its new digital antitrust list.
According to the source, Apple's appeal is still in draft form and may change before the deadline of November 16 for submitting challenges to the EU's General Court.
Requests for comment from Reuters were not immediately answered by Apple or the EU.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went into effect for the majority of businesses in May, is a stringent piece of law designed to reduce the market power of leading technology corporations and facilitate consumers' ability to switch between rival services.
22 services of significant digital companies were recently named by the EU Commission as "gatekeepers" of the internet, obliging them to cooperate with competitors in their messaging apps and allow customers to choose which apps to pre-install on their devices.
Among the services covered by the DMA are Amazon.com's marketplace, Apple's Safari, Bytedance's TikTok, Facebook by Meta Platforms, and Alphabet's Google Search.
The two regulations are anticipated to bring about significant changes in the platforms that fall under their jurisdiction, together with the Digital Services Act, which establishes guidelines for user-targeting, data practices, and data sharing with the regulators.
Apple will still have to follow the regulations as of March, even with the possible appeal. In a filing this month, Apple stated that it anticipates altering the App Store in response to the new regulations from the bloc.
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