China Targets Live-Streaming Apps in New Apple Encroachment
- Beijing regulators want to quiz Apple over apps sold in store
- Apple is facing mounting pushback from Chinese regulators
Chinese Regulators Target Apple's App Store
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Chinese regulators will demand that Apple Inc. strengthen the review process for live-streaming applications it sells in its App Store, the latest in a series of encroachments on the iPhone maker’s services in Asia’s largest economy.
The city of Beijing’s Cyberspace Administration is summoning Apple to ask that it subject Chinese news and live-streaming services to more stringent app reviews to ensure they conform to regulations, the agency said Tuesday in a statement on its WeChat social media account. Local operators Toutiao, Huoshanzhibo and Huajiao have failed to comply with legal requirements, the agency said. All three offer apps on the Chinese edition of Apple’s App Store.