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Apple Faces Antitrust Probe Into Pre-Installed Apps, App Store, and More in Germany
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Android Phones Might Be More Secure Than iPhones Now
What the market for zero-day exploits tells us about our phones
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Apple patches iOS against 3 actively exploited 0-days found by Google
Project Zero has reported 7 actively exploited zerodays in the past two weeks.
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Considering EPIC Game have sued Google on similar grounds as Apple, I assume very few people do actually takes the risk to side load on Android devices. In that sense, the difference seem to be insignificant.
Visa is just middle man from bank to seller.
30% for risk handling, transaction handling, advertising, store support etc etc, that ok.
How much do you think supermarkets take, its more like 50%
The lack of diversity in the smartphone market is hardly Apple or Google’s fault. They shouldn’t be blamed for other companies’ failure to challenge them. Apple has every right to force 30% or any amount of commission on developers as they see fit. They rightfully earned their dominant position in the market by pioneering digital software distribution and creating the best smartphone.
These governments and regulatory bodies are effectively punishing companies for being successful in the name of antitrust; they operate on the untrue assumption that monopolies are inherently bad and can only be achieved illegally. They can’t seem to entertain the idea that Apple lawfully got to where they are.
To clarify my visa statement:
Just imagine VISA would charge 30% for every transaction with only 2 payment options in the world and only 1 working with your bank account.
Irrelevant, even if true (which is questionable).
Simple way to put these countries back in line, ban them form using all of your services, then watch fall back in line.
Anyone checked in on Huawei recently, wonder how they’re going. 🤔
Anyone checked in on Huawei recently, wonder how they’re going. 🤔
You just perfectly defined the monopolistic and anti competitive business practices for which antitrust laws where written.
You're making the leap here that the Bundeskartellamt is "blaming" Apple or Google, and wants to fine them. A different possible outcome could be that Apple and Google are forced to add more UI to change default apps.
Nobody is denying that.
Antitrust isn't about whether someone earned a position. It's about whether, once they have that position, they still use it fairly.
The Microsoft antitrust case didn't say that Windows wasn't allowed to have 90% market share. It said that Microsoft wasn't allowed to leverage the Windows market share in order to also create dominant positions in other markets (such as web browsers and media players).
No, they don't.
Quite frankly after the lackluster iPad update at WWDC I am all for opening up iOS and the App Store. The iPad needs to be more of a computer and less of a console.
What exactly is irrelevant? You’re suggesting that Apple shouldn’t be able to define its own business model simply because it has a dominant position in the market. You’re basically discouraging companies from being successful.
Just found the real reason for the complaints in the press release of the Bundeskartellamt:
"...these include, among others, an association complaint from the advertising and media industry against Apple restricting user tracking with the introduction of its iOS 14.5 operating system..."
So this, again, is the Springer Press working in the background, teamed up with Facebook Germany and others.
Dis-gus-ting!
"...these include, among others, an association complaint from the advertising and media industry against Apple restricting user tracking with the introduction of its iOS 14.5 operating system..."
So this, again, is the Springer Press working in the background, teamed up with Facebook Germany and others.
Dis-gus-ting!
Sure, but it quickly gets complicated when you start to ask who chooses which service categories and service providers the user gets to choose from?
In music, Apple Music and Spotify sure, but what about Tidal, Amazon Prime, Pandora? And what about all the smaller players? We can't only include big services, because that would be unfavorable to smaller services out there.
What categories are we doing this in?
Music? Video? Browsers? Email? Photos? Photo editing? Words processors? Password managers? Podcasts? Calendar? Maps?
The point I am trying t make is that it gets complicated fast and there don't seem to be any logical "this category/app and not that" arguments around.
And what’s wrong with that? If other companies are as successful as Microsoft, they can do the same thing as continue competing with Microsoft, but they’re not as successful, so they cry to governments about “anticompetitive behavior”. Private companies should be able to leverage their success to become even more successful.
That is indeed troubling.
That's a great find!
It's disconcerting and disappointing for the government to be pretending to be pro consumer when they're really doing the advertising industry's dirty work.
So.. iPhones shouldn’t come with ring tones because you can buy those from someone else.. or wallpapers, or a phone app.. this is stupidity at its best. I’m all about supporting developers, but this is getting greedy.
Supermarkets likely take in a lot more. When we used to sell software to stores we got back about 10-20% per sale. Now we get back 70-85% from Apple, Google, Valve, and Microsoft. And about 50-60% from Epic.
You are talking about a government relatively protective of consumer privacy, especially compared to others.
The issue is that it doesn't matter who issues a formal complaint, the question is only whether the complaint is valid, which is what this probe is supposed to determine.
Sure, but it speaks to the motive behind the probe in the first place. That's not immaterial.