If that is truly the case which I doubt then Apple has some larger issues in the OS it claims that is so secure. At its core iOS is unix which is a fairly secure OS in how it can sand box most things and prevent leaving the sandbox.
This is 100% Apple’s doing, based on what the DMA requires. Just like with GDPR, they defined a regulation with a naive idea about how it would play out. Do they even engage anyone in the tech sphere?
Because all these companies have a stranglehold that can’t be broken - they stifle and lock in and steal data and suffocate everything around them until it’s just them standing. (perhaps Apple least of all, but they still do)
oooooh i'd assumed that was the reason. numbers huh, that seems like a weird metric when they could have just said market share
Yeah, that’s what I mean - Apple are purposely ruining the experience for their customers because they’re annoyed at the eu. That’s not ok though. Is it?
It seems Apple is trying to destroy literally any good will they have with developers, regulators, and their own customers lately. They've really been showing their whole a** this last month or so.
Market share wouldn’t be appropriate when the market is small. This is really about how much control a single company may have over how a substantial portion of EU citizens use important services. Big Tech has grown too big and powerful, building a moat that makes it impossible for new companies to compete with them, and since they don’t want to play nice, they need to be reined in by regulation.
Maybe they are preoccupied and haven’t bothered about that yet. Or maybe Android in China is way more popular so customers care less about App Store rules. Maybe Apple has implemented enough exceptions to their rules so that sweeping changes like this is not their priority. Last time I check, Android has 77% marketshare compared to Apple’s 22%, all within a single country, which is roughly the same scale as EU.
At one point, Nokia had a stranglehold that couldn’t be broken. Fortunately, one company ignored that outlook and took a relatively huge risk to make something different. Heck, MySpace had a stranglehold that couldn’t be broken, and they were followed by a laundry list of other companies, all that had a stranglehold that couldn’t be broken. And inevitably, was broken.
If the DMA didn’t exist, none of this would be happening. Apple didn’t make the change “just ‘cause they wanted to.” If someone’s holding a rope that’s keeping a weight off my head and I say, “Stop everything you’re doing and get over here”, I mean, I asked for it.
We will see indeed. The way Apple are behaving though, they’ll break it all by themselves. Of all the companies to pull off an elegant solution to an imposed problem, one would think one could rely on Apple. They can pull some amazing things out of the bag. So far though (and only a day in mind) they’re absolutely butchering it.
Not power-hungry, but concerned about how big-tech companies have grown to control important parts of EU citizens’ lives. My guess for why the EU is the first is that it’s a cultural after-effect of Europe being the cradle of Enlightenment, combined with the fact that it is less capitalistically and more socialistically oriented than the US.
If that was the case, though, that would just mean that the negotiators in the EU aren’t able to get the same exceptions to Apple’s rules that China got. So the EU tried and failed where China succeeded?
Hey, maybe this will be the thing that pushes the EU to actually increase compet… naaaah.
That’s AFTER just sitting back and watching it happen, though. And, if they were THAT concerned, wouldn’t the better solution to be to design a EU centric phone that could be subsidized by the government that would become the defacto market leader in the region? OR, limit the import of things like the iPhone? If they don’t allow iPhones in the region, then they Apple would have no hope of controlling ANY parts of EU citizens lives. What they’re ACTUALLY doing is trying to make the iPhone more desirable to EU citizens. Which seems contrary to the idea that they’re so very concerned about people using these devices.
China is a dictatorship without proper legal proceedings. What do you expect? They told Apple to better comply or GTFO of here.
It could also be that what EU cares about are different. For example, to appease Chinese government, all Apple needs to do is bend their rules to let WeChat works “as intended by them”, alongside selected apps and categories. Apple needs those 20% revenue more than China needs Apple, so they comply.
They’re not trying to limit people using these devices. Have you go the wrong idea? They’re trying to open up the ecosystems and hardware to competition, to level the playing field, to give EU and other countries startups more of a chance. In software, hardware and the utility of the already existing ecosystems to the same level as the ‘gatekeepers’ themselves.