Report: Apple Nearing Agreement With EU Over App Store Rules

[I7guy]

We are not on "teams" here.
The poster is correct, you should please expand and defend your own posts and points.

There certainly seems to be “teams” here. But yeah I’ll leave it at that high level remark. Feel free to offer a counter point though.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Including the iPad makes sense because without it that would have left a gaping loophole

“Yes, sir, you were only going 70 mph in an 80 mph area, but 55 makes more sense, so, even though it’s not the law, you’re going to be punished and fined as if it were.” This is what people are referring to when they say it’s difficult for companies to adhere to because there’s no telling which regulator is going to consider WHICH part of the actions a company’s taking as “making sense” or not.

That rule would also capture everything from feature phones to consoles, along with car infotainment systems, smart TVs, and basically everything else where someone is trying to lock down hardware and sell access. It would apply to Macs but they're already compliant apart from not providing the boot loader key, and it wouldn't apply at all to companies like ST or Arduino (until Broadcomm **** them up), or to Dell etc.

And, that’s why it wasn’t done that way. Mercedes is based in the EU and their government representation would have blocked it until wording was added to avoid them. By the time they worked through all the changes, Vestager would have been out of office and no one else would have kept it going forward.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Talk about an odd brexit benefit for big tech!

If the UK had been in the EU, it would have said “four or more regions” instead of “three or more”.