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Comment: Apple offers limited concessions in App Store legal settlement with small developers

By Michael Acton, Max Fillion and Khushita Vasant
  • 27 Aug 2021 17:05
  • 27 Aug 2021 17:05
Apple’s $100 million App Store settlement with small developers in California has done nothing to appease its loudest critics, mainly because the concessions the tech giant has made over how it runs the iOS app ecosystem are not revolutionary.
Apple has cast the agreement as something of a peace treaty

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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