Tinder owner Match claims Apple’s App Store fees will stifle growth in India

Match Group, owner of Tinder, claims in its submission to India’s antitrust body that Apple’s fee of up to 30% will gradually choke its revenues, urging steep fines to safeguard its business.
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Since 2022, Match has been locked in an antitrust battle with Apple at the Competition Commission of India… Apple has denied wrongdoing and said it is a small player in India where phones mostly use Google’s Android system.
In a response dated October 13 to the CCI investigators’ findings, which Reuters is the first to report on, Match urged the watchdog to issue final directives asking Apple to discontinue its anti-competitive practices.
“Apple’s policies adversely affect the return on capital and revenue streams of Match’s portfolio brands,” Match said in its submissions, reviewed by Reuters. “In the long term, the constraints and excessive fee imposed by Apple will stifle the growth and scalability of Match’s portfolio brands,” it added, without quantifying the impact…
iOS powered an estimated 4.5% of 735 million smartphones in India as of mid-2025, with the rest using Android, Counterpoint Research says.

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MacDailyNews Take: Yet another greedy app peddler jonesing for a free lunch.
How much did it cost developers to have their apps burned onto CDs, boxed, shipped, displayed on store shelves prior to Apple remaking the world for the better for umpteenth time? Apple incurs costs to store, review, organize, surface, and distribute apps to over one billion users. — MacDailyNews, June 10, 2022

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