An Apple fee of up to 30% in India will over time stifle revenues for Match, the owner of dating app Tinder, it said in its submission to the Indian antitrust body, adding that hefty fines were needed to protect its business.

Tinder is one of the biggest players in the Indian dating apps market, which will be worth an estimated $1.42 billion by 2030, according to advisory firm MarketNtel.

Since 2022, Match has been locked in an antitrust battle with Apple at the Competition Commission of India, where investigators last year issued a report saying the US smartphone company had engaged in ”abusive conduct” on the apps market of its iPhone Operating System, iOS.

Apple has denied wrongdoing and said it is a small player in India where phones mostly use Google’s Android system. It did not re

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