EU demands answers over Epic-Apple feud

BRUSSELS, Mar 07 (AFP): Apple must explain its decision to halt Epic Games' effort to develop a competing app store for its devices, EU regulators said Thursday, as they consider whether the iPhone-maker violated any laws.

"We have requested further explanations on this from Apple under the DMA," a spokesperson for the European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust regulator, said, referring to the bloc's new landmark Digital Markets Act.

The DMA orders the world's biggest tech companies to open up their platforms to competition, including allowing rival application stores on devices.