Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), ended up in the crosshairs ofAntitrust Russian.
The Cupertino company has received a fine of approximately $17,4 million twigs Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) for theabuse of its dominant position on the market.
The FAS claims to have discovered that Apple forced Russian developers to use Apple's payment services with the iOS App Store (operating system created and developed by Apple for its hardware), in violation of Russian regulations on competition.
Apple will have two months to pay.
First sanction occurred in 2021
It is not the first time that Tim Cook's company has been sanctioned by the Russian body.
In 2021 he had received a $12 million fine "for abusing its dominant position in the distribution of mobile applications on the iOS operating system". The fine came after Kaspersky reporting, a Russian cybersecurity company, which had accused the company of blocking access to one of its parental control applications.
