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Apple is fighting Tencent and ByteDance over in-app payments in China

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Apple has been pressuring ByteDance and Tencent to close loopholes in China that funnel customers to external payment systems for in-app purchases.

Apple allegedly warned Tencent that it would reject crucial WeChat updates if it didn’t eliminate the ability for users to make payments outside of Apple ’s ecosystem.

Tencent complied with the original request, issuing an update in July , but Apple went one step further.

Apple also threatened to withhold updates of Douyin , basically the Chinese version of TikTok , unless it plugged any gaps that steer users away from that much-coveted commission.

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