Imagine... 💭 Your undertaking develops and sells smartphone games. Most sales of your games are made through two or three app stores, which charge you a commission. They do so not only on the app sales themselves, but also on the purchases that users make within your games.

You find the commission often excessive, but no app store is willing to lower the commission. When you offer gamers the ability to make purchases within your games directly through your own website, one of the app stores threatens to stop making the games available on its platform if you don't stop doing so.

You find this to be pure intimidation and turn to your in-house counsel. She tells you that you could sue the app store for abuse of dominance or abuse of a position of economic dependency, but that these procedures are anything but straightforward. She does add that legislation will come into force later this year that could help you...

👉 Read our latest In the Picture ”The Digital Markets Act: Commission tackles Big Tech“, written by our associate Daniel Murray 

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