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Japan Fair Trade Commission opens investigation into Apple's App Store for anti-competitive guidelines

On 28 October 2016, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) opened an investigation into Apple for alleged anti-competitive App Store practices. JFTC noted that Apple's mobile operating system only lets users sign into their accounts and doesn’t allow them to set up new accounts or manage existing ones, e.g. making new subscriptions, within the app. The users have to go to the website of the app developer, which according to JFTC could be classified as anticompetitive behaviour.

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Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
software provider: app stores
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority

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2016-10-28
under deliberation

On 28 October 2016, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) opened an investigation into Apple fo…

2021-09-02
concluded

On 2 September 2021, after an investigation period that began in October 2016, the Japanese Fair Tr…