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In May 2021, Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, led a class action against Apple on behalf of 19.6 million UK consumers.
The complaint alleges that Apple abuses its dominant position through exclusion of any other app stores from iOS devices and the 30% surcharge that it imposes on apps that require payment at the point of download, subscription payments, or allow for...

It’s a mere 4 years, 3 months and 22 days since a weird Australian developer and his brother contacted me to ask if I would be interested in speaking to UK competition regulators about Apple’s continuing holding back the Web (which I’d long been moaning...

Last week, I went to New York, to attend Smashing Conference. I’ll be honest and admit that I was very nervous because of recent cases of incarcerating British, Irish, German and Canadian tourists, and my passport shows I was born in what is now Yemen...