Apple already knows that it is violating the DMA. All of this „Core Technology Fee“ was just a test and it failed.
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Apple Has 'Very Serious' DMA Issues, EU to Enforce Rules 'Soon'
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And you didn’t address the fact iOS has been around how long, pretty much exact same rules all that time.
Why now is it suddenly bad?
Haha yeah the US should do that. Because apple is more important than EU is to the US. Absolute peak comment.
The takes in here are just beyond ridiculous.
If the world is going to shift to AR/VR soon anyway then the EU and other world governments ending the iPhone gravy train isn't such a big deal anyway. Yeah it'll cost billions, but we'll all be using Vision and Meta soon anyway if you ask Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg.
It's not about Apple alone.
I hope American economy and American companies being fairly paid for their work is more important to US than the EU.
Nokia already is revived. As Android devices.
Nokia in name only.
Because there are now laws against it. If it becomes illegal tomorrow to gamble or drive a car you don’t get to gamble or drive a car. That’s how the world works. Some americans in here really need to figure out that the US does not get to dictate how it works in the rest of the world.
You do t need to be American to see the EU just make **** up
Most big tech companies have the social and political sense of garage startup company. Time to grow up?
Well Apple making a little less money makes absolutely 0 difference to you or me. So wherever you’re from it should be pretty obvious that apple is not above the law. They’re just a business.You do t need to be American to see the EU just make **** up
The takes in here are embarrassing.
While I agree with the point behind this, I don't believe it should be implemented via fines but from market control i.e. you have to stop selling by date X unless you comply. The EU is not looking good on the fines front, especially with very negative public opinion on Chat Control and large corruption scandals.
I guarantee that the end game is someone finds bias or private interests and wants their money back and then things get interesting.
I guarantee that the end game is someone finds bias or private interests and wants their money back and then things get interesting.
And you didn’t address the fact that Apple behaviour is under investigation at least for ten years now. The DMA was made to force gatekeepers to play nice on the european market, that’s all.
Apple can still generate tons of money, but it has to enter competition.
The US government is completely different in the ways it is broken.
Apple wants a cut of any transaction that happens on an iOS device. Whether you were buying an app, a song, paying for a cheeseburger, or buying hangers from a store on the internet. That's the real reason behind all this crap.
The really hard part here is that you have to take the bad with the good. Apple used their Apple-ness to bully carriers into iPhones without carrier bloatware. No iPhone has ever shown a T-Mobile animation and played the T-Mobile jingle when you started it up. There's no such thing. Thank goodness! Unfortunately this mess with side loading and vendor-lock-in every step of the way is what we get instead. X_X
The EC can't regulate a business to give away their products; they can only just say "nope, try again" indefinitely.
So a little under a third of my word documents? What's "everything I did"?
Indeed. What are you talking about?
Sure they can. It's their land, their laws. Apple can choose to do business or not.
They needed a new mechanism to rein in the Big Tech as the current laws have proven to be inefficient. Countries make new laws all the time. Even the US is trying to get a new law passed to do the same, but it may not happen as the politicians can be easily bought there.
The European laws aren't about apple customer rights. They are about businesses being limited in various ways within dominant platforms.
The EC isn't saying the DMA compliance is insufficient because they did a street poll of iPhone users. They are fielding complaints from European developers who say Apple's changes still leave them frustrated.
Treating Spotify as an example: why should I care about whether they are taking credit card numbers in the application vs opening a browser? Would the option to take them in-app without any payment to Apple have convinced Spotify to not do their last two price increases? Will they roll those prices back down if they get the ability take credit card #s in-app?
Why would you suffer, If you only want to use the appstore for installs nothing changes to how it was previously to you
Omg the comments here show so much ignorance and lack of information… even though I personally hate the idea of alternate app stores, I think from a general perspective the EU is doing the right thing here. Funny how now suddenly everybody hates on the EU- where were the complaints when they forced Apple to finally give us USB C??
Looks like more legal problems are coming up for Apple
If they thought this behavior was unexpected, they weren't very bright.
There is regulation, and then there is protectionism. I’d say the US is the most protectionist of all the countries in the world. Entire sections of the economy wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for federal support and protection.
I mean each country and trade bloc looks after its own. Would people expect it to be any other way?