

In the United States, the Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the business. Over the last month, regulators in Japan and South Korea have forced Apple to tweak how it manages the App Store. It was a damaging loss for the company, which is facing increasingly pointed questions from regulators and politicians around the world about its business.

A federal judge on Friday struck a serious blow to Apple’s control of its App Store, giving companies a way to avoid handing Apple a cut of their app sales and potentially upending a $100 billion online market.Īpple counts on revenue from its App Store to fuel its expansive profits, and the decision could eat away at that money.
