UK drops App Store investigation, says it has better things to do

After three years and, significantly, a change in government, the UK's competition regulator has closed its App Store investigation before reaching a conclusion.UK ParliamentThe UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) first announced the investigation in 2021, saying that it followed an unspecified number of complaints sent to it. At the time, the regulator said that the complaints 'warrant careful scrutiny.'According to the UK government's own documentation, the investigation opened on March 3, 2021, and an initial information-gathering process ran until February 2022. Then in March 2022, the CMA decided it had sufficient grounds to proceed, and it had conducted what it described as analysis and review. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums