That's where the EU should have acted - if Apple is charging a fee for downloads from its app store, which are no doubt passed on to consumers, then the consumers should benefit from that fee. The EU should have required Apple to warranty the quality and security of apps in its app store, and provided an easy mechanism whereby iOS users could claim compensation if an app's quality is low (here's looking at you, Scopely) or privacy/security is not as advertised. Instead they chose to change Apple's very successful business model after lobbying by less successful and less competitive European companies. As if these companies weren't transferring the Apple charges directly to consumers, and as if now they'll reduce their app fees rather than, say, just keeping their prices the same and adding to their profits....
Mark my words: None of this will help consumers in the long run.
Eu acts when they get legal complaints. They don’t act with all knowing authority
Didn’t you get the memo? If it’s apple telling you what to do, it’s not paternalism, it’s apple making sure you get the best posible user experience.
Uh,Hu? It just happens to be “the best possible user experience” is that Apple decided. And for the best interest of the user. Perhaps look up the word paternalism
Company only sold you the product for what it is at the moment of trade plus what is promised in the contract, nothing more or less. Smartphone is not a right in constitution for human.
Well yes it is in a sense.
In the
European Convention
on Human Rights
Protection of property
Article 8
Protection of personal data
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
Article 17
Right to property
1. Everyone has the right to own, use, dispose of and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired possessions. No one may be deprived of his or her possessions
Guide on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
to the European Convention
on Human Rights
Protection of property
Updated on 31 August 2022
A. Applicability of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - "possessions"
Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Right to property
"1. Every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions..."
HUDOC keywords
Possessions (P1-1-1) - Peaceful enjoyment of possessions (P1-1-1)
1. Concept of "possessions"
4. The concept of "possessions" in the first part of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 is an autonomous one, covering both "existing possessions" and assets, including claims, in respect of which the applicant can argue that he or she has at least a "legitimate expectation". "Possessions" include rights "in rem" and "in personam". The term encompasses immovable and movable property and other proprietary interests.
