They actually did it in the UK with the O2 network as well. Curiously they also had exclusivity for the Palm Pre which, despite being heavily marketed in their stores (I brought one!) I always thought was an attempt to neuter a potential competitor to the iPhone or prevent a rival network from having a carrier exclusive which is highly anti-competitive.
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EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to All Hardware and Software Features
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I can see the nudge and wink! I'm not sure how it is in the USA but it was mandated in recent years that all handsets sold in the UK must be carrier unlocked at purchase. This was only ever a good decision.
Oh please. I said I plainly said I don't know what they do and note that you strategically removed my part about shell companies of which Apple has many.
If you seriously believe that no shenanigans go on at Apple then I'd have to say you sound deluded. Whether other companies engage in it is irrelevant. Apple have have a more than noticeable number of shady privacy scandals.
I use both devices when necessary. I'm not drowned in Apple flavoured sugary drinks.
Nothing, and I mean nothing in this known universe comes close to the EU madness. Basically, it is a stupidity of totally different level.
Plus UK 67 million and other European countries that are not members of the Bureaucratic Union.
I don't make the laws, I just quote them. There is incidentally a lawsuit going after Amazon for the practices you list.
Apple remain an easy target. Thats why companies keep going after them. Consider the Epic vs Apple trial: Of the $2bn Fortnite pulled in in 2019, only 10% of that revenue came from iOS and nearly 50% from PlayStation. If Epic are so bothered about the 30% it gave to Apple, why did it not go after Sony, a company it paid even more money to?
The answer is Epic aren't daft enough to bite the hand that feeds it. They went after Apple because there was already a disgruntled dev community it could lean on but also it being Apple, the tech press would lap it up and give them free marketing for Fortnite for months on end.
If it lost is wasn't a big deal. They deliberately cut Apple out of the loop and got themselves booted from iOS because it could cut the loss. But if they did win and force Apple, the biggest consumer electronics company in the world to reduce its fee or let devs divert, Sony et al would also be forced to do so as they would have no leg to stand on.
Fortnite made $5.1bn in 2020 so clearly their decision worked.
Apple don't get off as the victim here. The court case revealed all sorts of dubious business practices such as Apple refusing to admit it makes huge profits ($60bn in 2020!) on the app store rather than running it at cost, offering Netflix favourable terms to not remove IAP whilst letting every other dev play by them, the increasing nannying of MacOS and the potential for closing that ecosystem.
You can have 100% of the market of every country in the world. As long as it’s not in the EU single market they won’t be covered by these laws. EU law only applies to the EU market.
The activity of our own UK government these last 2 years begs to differ. The entire Tory cabinet are a bunch of sociopathic clowns out for themselves. I may not have liked the policies of Thatcher but at the very least she showed some honour and decency operating in the office of Prime Minister and I can respect her for that. The current sycophants in charge couldn't organise a fire in a match factory and, barring the odd hungarian dictator have to be the worst western government of the last decade.
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Apple Fined $150M+ By Italian Watchdog for Anti-Competitive Cooperation With Amazon
Apple and Amazon were today fined a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) by Italy's antitrust authority for alleged...
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The US government? That’s a regulatory nightmare.
Different goals of the difrent administrations.
EU values private property rights of citizens more than corporate property.
Eu values a healthy competitive market, harm to consumers isn’t the only criteria.
Now you are just making stuff up. AT&T has extremely innovative products and also had lucent labs. Apple in spite of being in a literal sea of competition managed to produce extremely innovative and popular products. My cable provider, a monopoly , not so much.
What you meant to say is the regulation Allie’s competition to use others innovation free of charge. But that will never be posted because this terrible legislation must be defended at all costs.
The word alleged very clear in the title.Like this one?
Apple Fined $150M+ By Italian Watchdog for Anti-Competitive Cooperation With Amazon
Apple and Amazon were today fined a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) by Italy's antitrust authority for alleged...
You've obviously never heard the term Brexit? You know the organisation that the UK left that would have allowed it to put forward changes to or even veto some EU legislation.
What that also means is that you are totally ignorant of UK politics. QED✓.
Well it is a strong allegation. Seems to be a clear cut case
Or apples dubious privacy practice.
There is no "lock-in" with iMessage. You can easily switch to other services.
Why should a multi-billion dollar investment not be allowed to give you an advantage?!? That's just silly. Antitrust actions are generally about preventing competition, not having a competitive advantage. Of course, most people commenting on this topic can't tell the difference.
Either way many multi-national have to pay fines in foreign countries. Unless a foreign company is completely stupid these fines aren’t usually the result of intentionally gaming the consumers or the laws.
You sure that's the defense you want to use?
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So where are you "plugging in" or "inserting" these new/second-hand discs/cartridges? And what if you want to play online with someone? Get your wallet out for either Sony's, Microsoft's, or Nintendo's "walled" online service.
I think you need your Airpod's cleaned. You're hearing things. These two are nothing alike.
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Yes they should. It’s apples platform. Apple spent the $$$ to design, develop and produce their products. It’s like saying Costco should not have a platform advantage selling their products. It’s like a ho e turf advantage for the Yankees. Nonsense.
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I use i t quite regular, thankyou very much and again, it depends on the scanner you have. Sure you can do more with the vehicle mfr set up but stop being disingenuous.
Perhaps a pro mechanic can chime in here and put you to sleep.
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And once again the last time I checked having a console that didn't take discs is an option. Unlike the iPhone I can choose to purchase a slightly more expensive variant that does take physical media. And even with a digital-only console I can still purchase discounted game codes from CDKeys et al.
And if I want to play online I won't bother because I have the consumer choice of playing free to play titles like Rocket League and Fortnite which don't require a subscription at all. Heck, Microsoft's own Halo Infinite doesn't even require Xbox Live. £40 a year for Xbox Live is a bargain though because Xbox Live is brilliant!
At every point in the games industry I have a choice of what console to buy, where I buy my games and whether or not I want to pony up for their respective online service which many popular titles do not require. My point was they are nothing alike because none of the console manufacturers operate a monopolised marketplace.
They also support devices well past their market prime. Nintendo still repairs the 3DS (launched 2011), Microsoft patched an error in the Xbox 360 (launched 2005) last week and Sony are going to honour purchased PS1 and PSP titles from as far back as 2008 outside of their new subscription. Good luck getting your OG iPhone repaired at the Apple Store.
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The first rule when you've dug yourself into a hole is to stop digging, a lesson you do not seem to have learned.
The type of scanner has nothing to do with it, they are all pretty much the same.
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Second-hand sales have nothing to do with the potential EU regulation. The requirements for being classified as a gatekeeper were posted earlier. Something like the Xbox would seem to qualify.