The EU formally accused Apple on Friday of unfairly squeezing out music streaming rivals through its App Store in one of the biggest-ever competition cases to hit the iPhone maker. The charge sheet lands as Apple faces a rebellion from firms that want to break free of the global Apple App Store’s strict terms and fees, with authorities in the US, Russia, Britain and South Korea also circling on the world’s biggest company. “By setting strict rules on the App Store that disadvantage competing music streaming services, Apple deprives users of cheaper music streaming choices and distorts competition,” EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. The European Commission’s case, put forward in a “statement of objections”, is based on a complaint brought by Sweden-based Spotify and others that accuses Apple of making unfair use of the App Store to promote its own Apple Music. Spotify filed the complaint in 2019 that also accused Apple of unfairly taking a 30 per cent cut from businesses using its store, which Spotify says amounts to a violation of fair competition rules. The case is one of four taken up by the European Commission against Apple last year and...