Apple's hammering in UK class action over app store fees puts Google on alert
By Simon Zekaria ( October 24, 2025, 15:46 GMT | Comment) -- Apple is smarting after comprehensively losing a class action at the UK’s specialist competition court over the level of its App Store fees. A landmark moment for the collective action regime in the UK, the ruling will set alarm bells ringing for Google, which faces a parallel claim in the same tribunal.Apple has been stung by comprehensively losing a class action at the UK’s specialist competition court over the level of its App Store fees — one that hikes the company’s legal, commercial and operational risk and has wider implications for the tech sector....
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