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The European Commission will launch a probe into whether Apple is unfairly using the App Store to disadvantage competitors, reports the Financial Times. 据《金融时报》报道，欧盟委员会要开始调查苹果公司是否在不正当利用苹果商店来打压对手。 The antitrust investigation comes after Spotify filed a formal complaint with the European Commission in which it said that Apple’s App Store rules “purposely limit choice and stifle innovation at the expense of the user experience.” 此次反垄断调查是因为Spotify（全球最大的正版流媒体音乐服务平台）正式向欧盟委员会提起了诉讼，诉讼中该公司称苹果公司苹果商店的规定“蓄意限制用户的选择，以牺牲用户体验为代价扼杀创新。” Specifically, Spotify’s complaint focuses on Apple’s 30% cut of App Store sales, including subscriptions that Spotify users sign up to via the Spotify iOS app. As Spotify argued in a blog post back in March: 确切地说，Spotify公司的控诉主要是关于苹果公司在苹果商店销售额中30%的分成，包括Spotify用户通过Spotify苹果应用程序注册订阅的费用。Spotify在刚刚过去的三月份在一篇博客文章中提到： To illustrate what I mean, let me share a few examples. Apple requires that Spotify and other digital services pay a 30% tax on purchases made through Apple’s payment system, including upgrading from our Free to our Premium service. If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music. And to keep our price competitive for our customers, that isn’t something we can do. | 
