EU court probes Apple's right to contest gatekeeper-law obligations
By Lewis Crofts ( October 21, 2025, 11:31 GMT | Insight) -- Apple faced questioning Tuesday over whether it could dispute EU law obligations to offer developers free interoperability with its iPhone, when the lawsuit before the court only attacked the underlying decision to "designate" it as a powerful digital platform. Judges at the EU's lower-tier court explored the underpinning of Apple's appeal, which the European Commission said was "inadmissible" because it attacked obligations that only came much later, after the main "designation" decision.Apple faced questioning this morning over whether it could dispute EU law obligations to offer developers free interoperability with its iPhone, when the lawsuit before the court only attacked the underlying decision to "designate" it as a powerful digital platform....
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