EU court hands Brussels win over Apple on Big Tech rules – POLITICO

The EU General Court on Wednesday dismissed Apple’s challenge against how it was designated under the bloc’s Big Tech rules, handing the European Commission a significant victory in one of the first major judicial tests of the law.

In a trio of rulings delivered jointly, the Luxembourg-based court confirmed Apple’s designation as a gatekeeper — a firm that controls critical bottlenecks in digital markets — under the Digital Markets Act for the App Store and iOS in full. It also ruled the company’s challenges over its iMessage service inadmissible.

The rulings by the EU’s second-highest court mark the latest chapter in an escalating legal confrontation between Apple and Brussels over the DMA, the law the EU has cast as its most ambitious attempt to rebalance power between Big Tech and the rest of the digital economy.