No, they don't want a bunch of private API's that Apple use (like they did with Apple Pay) and third parties are barred from as it inhibits competition with Apple's services.
That's nowhere close to open sourcing the OS.
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No, they don't want a bunch of private API's that Apple use (like they did with Apple Pay) and third parties are barred from as it inhibits competition with Apple's services.
That's nowhere close to open sourcing the OS.
EU: please can you make your products less good so your competitors have a chance.
Or we will fine you. We need the cash.
Or we will fine you. We need the cash.
Yup. 4 US and 1 Chinese companies. So what? Name one EU company you think should fall under the DMA?
Their countries are safer than ours. Enough with the American hubris.
Phones with removable batteries aren't popular anymore because of tech influencers pushing the idea that thinness is better.
And the smartphone industry isn't important enough for people to organize protests in front of apple stores, just to queue up whenever the latest iphone drops.
The USB-C point is such a non-argument lol... lightning ports are notoriously fragile and the charging cables shipped are also awful. Its an issue that used to run rampant especially when iphones still had the home button. That's a part of history Apple is proud of, too.
You are fine to claim your iphone experience has dropped but that's because Apple has been found to do bad things. Maybe it's time for you to buy something else then, because your self-interest is more important for you than Apple's.
No, they don't.
This entire discussion is even barely about the smartphone market itself. They want to make sure that adjacent markets like smartwatches, voice assistants, music, tv streaming, digital payments, home speakers, etc are all healthy markets. Healthy in this case means there is genuine competition and possibilities for smaller companies to compete with the big guys on the quality of their product by itself rather than satellite markets where people who have already chosen a smartphone are by default choosing the 1st party solution of their smartphone supplier.
Back when Apple was smaller, trying to differentiate themselves by offering better integration between different products was OK. Now that they're bigger and are pretty dominant in smartphones, actively trying to make your ecosystem stickier and actively making it harder for competitors who don't produce smartphones to compete with you is not OK.
And I would like Apple to finally sell me a fully-fledged product, not one stripped of its functions. Poles often pay higher prices for equipment than other European countries, and they get defective equipment.
So how do you rationalise the US DOJ antitrust lawsuit in your head? Or the direction Japan is heading?
I honestly love it when people think that way. Thankfully tech development and supply chains have become international and thinking like that will get you nowhere. The moral of the story is, that in today's climate, that EU cannot live without the US anymore and the US cannot live without the EU. They have become codependent in practically any field.
I think the idea is that if consumers don't like the product or its terms of use, they can choose other products. Nobody in the EU is ever compelled to buy an iPhone. It is not like the iPhone has anything like a monopoly in the European market (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/1232268/apple-smartphone-market-share-in-europe/). People in the EU already had plenty of choice. This is a protectionist attack on a US company and the US should retaliate.
Spotify already IS a Gatekeeper in their market by the EUs definition. They have a significantly larger market share by both % and raw users in the EU than Apple does on the iPhone.
The only reason they are excluded is because they are an EU company, proving this isn’t about protecting consumers it’s about punishing successful non-EU companies. Which, yes, the EU has the prerogative to do, but they shouldn’t be lying about it and hiding beyond the false idea that this is about protecting customers.
Meanwhile despite NOT meeting the EUs already arbitrary “gatekeeper” metrics, the EU decide to include ipadOS too just because they can, again proving it’s not about gatekeepers or customers.
How is spotify prohibiting other streaming services to integrate with iOS / android?
Spotify is a service.
its available everywhere on all platforms, they don't hold the rights to stream ALL music.
You don't understand what a gatekeeper is do you?
Europeans choose Spotify over Apple Music because they prefer it.
Stop this USA being bullied chat 😂
They don’t have to leave the market, just announce that they would by some date in the future due to the oppressive nature of the EC. The blowback that would cause for the EC would quickly have them reverse their nonsense. No consumer is asking for this but they sure want their Apple devices to work.
It’s inevitable that they will; they’ll force Apple to allow Android to run on the iPhone hardware, too. That seems like a perfectly reasonable endgame as far as the these bureaucrats are concerned.
If you force all smartphones to have the same functionality and the same access to the same software and the same accessories, they become the same! How is that competition? The differences between the available operating systems and the hardware is what makes it competitive!
Apple does not represent the United States of America. It's like saying Japan would retaliate for actions against Toyota. The US themselves are investigating Apple on multiple shady business practices.
the EU market is larger than the US... (at least potentially)
I'm sure it will be as successful as qwant, the eu's search engine. 🤣
Yeah they really aren't, you seem to have just made most of this up.
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The argument that this is just EU vs American businesses is nonsensical also given that Apple/ Google/Amazon/ Microsoft have all drawn regulatory action from their own government too.
LOL no.
First Apple is not a mob boss. Anyone who buys an Apple product or developers software for an Apple product does so entirely by choice. Literally no one is forced to do buy an iPhone or write an iOS app against their will. And you are completely free to by a non-Apple device or develop for non-Apple platforms at any time and Apple will do exactly nothing to you. That makes them the worst “mob boss” of all time.
Second no, I don’t want companies running society. I also don’t want governments running product development at private companies.
I want governments to ensure companies:
1. Don’t sell dangerous products
2. Tell the truth about their products so I can accurately make my purchasing decisions
3. Step in if a company gains monopoly power and abuses it.
The DMA does none of those things. It’s simply an excuse to punish and control non-European companies.