Newspaper says it's blocked from Apple News UK

After years of not wanting to be included on Apple News, UK tabloid Daily Mail now wants in, and Apple isn't allowing it.

The Daily Mail is one of the largest news publications in the United Kingdom, but it's not accessible via Apple News. The publisher has now complained to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about Apple's seemingly dragging its feet in allowing its feed to be accessible to Apple News users.

The Daily Mail has been accessible via the Apple News app in the United States since 2015. Indeed, AppleInsider confirmed it is still available in the U.S. edition of Apple News.

However, when the app rolled out to the UK, the publication declined to allow users in the country to read its reports via Apple News.

There was the apparent risk that Apple News would cannibalize the web traffic the Daily Mail already received, the complaint to the CMA said, reports The Telegraph. It also said at the time that its U.S. inclusion was "extremely disappointing" and generated "no revenue" to the outlet.

After years of not supporting Apple News in its home country, the Daily Mail now wants to be included in the UK. However, Apple apparently hasn't moved to include the publication for UK users.

DMG Media, owner of the Daily Mail claims Apple wanted to add partners who "would grow the pie" instead of taking readership shares from other existing publications on the service.

There's also the apparent problem of the Daily Mail being too prolific. The newspaper was apparently "paradoxically" told that the number of articles it publishes and the strength of its user engagement would "overwhelm Apple's ecosystem."

DMG has called for the CMA to tackle Apple's "arbitrary and discriminatory practices." Apple is accused in the complaint of using its dominance in the mobile market to make Apple News a major news distribution tool.

Not using Apple News is "no longer an option" for DMG, with it now "indispensable" for running online news, due to its sheer popularity.

Apple has yet to comment on the new complaint.

While the CMA hasn't gone after Apple over Apple News just yet, it has previously examined whether Apple has too much power over the mobile market. The UK Government has put forward an intention to introduce EU-style regulations impacting Apple.

Apple, meanwhile, has threatened the UK with the prospect of delayed features if such initiatives come to pass.