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Dutch Antitrust Watchdog to Investigate Whether Apple Gives Itself Preferential Treatment in App Store [Updated]
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Netherland's investigator unlocks iphone
Notification 1 "Enjoy Apple Music free for 3 months"
Notification 2 "Give Apple Music a chance, you won't regret it"
Notification 3 "Listen to the Music you love with an Apple Music subscription".
Locks iPhone... "we have reached a conclusion in our investigation".
Notification 1 "Enjoy Apple Music free for 3 months"
Notification 2 "Give Apple Music a chance, you won't regret it"
Notification 3 "Listen to the Music you love with an Apple Music subscription".
Locks iPhone... "we have reached a conclusion in our investigation".
The definition of a monopoly is simple. You don't have to use Apple products, period. Nothing they provide is a necessity or basic living need.
Does Walmart exist in a universe where the products they sell only work with other products sold by them? Once you buy a tablet from Walmart, does it only connect to the Walmart app store? Once you purchase a TV from Walmart, can you only watch it while sitting on a couch from Walmart?
Trying the physical analog doesn't work well, because this digital world is so unbelievably dystopian. There's no physical analog - nothing like the iOS App Store has ever existed before in the physical world.
Free apps provided to entice users to sign up for an iCloud subscription.
Again, they created a free marketplace which offers unbiased advertising, hosting, and related customer services to third-parties which includes their competitors in other services offered by them. Once any free marketplace is created, then you lost control over prioritizing and/or preferential treatment of your service above the competitors service. The idea that just because software operates on hardware doesn't give a company exclusive rights to infringe upon the idea of a free marketplace. Don't want a free marketplace, then don't create one by offering a service on your platform to third-parties and competitors of those services. The free marketplace is promoting unbiased choice for the user and can't be influenced by one service having certain privileges which would deter the user from choosing the competitor's service.
Agreed. It's really simple considering that there have been lawsuits than span over years contending what is and isn't a monopoly.
I think there is something going on here, but it's hard to say exactly what. I don't think it's monopoly per say, but moreso leveraging power and ecosystem, which is hard to protest.
Thank you! It’s crazy to me that none of the posts before yours mention the fact that Apple doesn’t even have many apps in the App Store.
This investigation is asinine.
You can choose to buy a phone that has a more open platform
so by your definition, Microsoft shouldn't have been sued for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. They can choose to use Mac OS.
Well. In the market for iOS apps, they are.
That doesn't mean anything.
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It's like saying Disney is a monopoly in Disney content.
Only if it were actually possible to install a different app store on the iOS device or if it were easily possible to "side-load" apps. And as others have already correctly mentioned: Nobody forced people to use Microsoft Windows either, still Microsoft got its butt kicked for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
Nobody should be allowed to have a stranglehold over an ecosystem, no matter how large or small.
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Really? Because Apple is the ONLY company writing software for iOS? Because that would be the analogy for what you just said about Disney.
I thought that was one of the reasons we have an EU. One trade authority for member states. People who do business with EU countries now have to fight a thousand little trade skirmishes?
Here's a solution: make the App Store unavailable in The Netherlands.
Here's a solution: make the App Store unavailable in The Netherlands.
this analogy only makes sense if only apple apps were in the app store.
Except windows was the only operating system for all pc costumers
entry level devices now have 64gb there is enough space
What do You not understand with the dual 2 of apple and google. Walmart has plenty of competition hence they can place their stuff where they want.
Doesn't matter of the quantity in apps offered. It's if preferential treatment is being imposed to influence user choice in a free marketplace, which is what the App Store is defined as for software offered to iOS users. Apple still has proprietary control over their OS and the guidelines/policies for software allowed on the OS. However, the App Store can't be operated with anti-competitive or anti-trust tactics. As an example of in-app subscriptions, then it has to be shown that Apple's intent for limiting subscriptions through the app other than via the App Store was in the best interests of the user. The burden of proof to establish that they didn't allow this is on Apple since there are plenty of examples on other hardware/software platforms which would provide counterarguments.
and the app store is the only store for all apple consumers