The European Commission has announced that it has dropped two antitrust investigations into Apple regarding the company’s iPhone repair and third-party development tools for iOS.
The iPhone repair issue was focused on Apple’s repair policies that made it difficult for iPhone customers in one EU country to have it serviced or repaired in another EU country.
One focused on the “country of purchase” rule, whereby repairs service is only available in the country where the iPhone was bought, which made the exercise of warranty rights difficult for consumers who had purchased an iPhone in another EU/EEA country than their home country. The Commission had concerns that this rule could amount to territorial restrictions aimed at dissuading European consumers from buying iPhones outside their country of residence and so leading to a partitioning of the market.
Apple has since dropped it’s “country of purchase” clause, and now allows for warranty repairs across borders.
The second issue was addressed by Apple earlier this month when they announced that they would allow code that had been developed in third-party development tools onto the App Store. Thus, EU and U.S. regulators dropped their case against Apple.
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