Just as there is no competition inside of McDonalds. You and the EU have manufactured an issue where none exists.
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It also impacts Android. Apple raises their price $200 and guess what Samsung does. They raise their price by $200 because they can. Everyone loses.
Apparently we are going to bypass the long standing tradition of innocent until proven guilty and just go for guilty. Got it.
That's not impacting Android. The above is an example of a specific manufacturer making a pricing adjustment. Nothing to do with the underlying operating system.
Well, to be fair, this seems to be the way the EU operates their court system. The DMA apparently means whatever the commission wants it to mean, independent of the language.
That's within the scope of the law. The court of public opinion has never, and will never, operate under such conditions.
Which is fine, but then don't cite the DOJ case as though that proves anything of substance.
Would a federal investigation stop an enquiry by any of the states which form the federation?
The court of public opinion means nothing here. The Doj just doesn't get to throw some stuff against the wall and call it a day.
The court of public opinion is irrelevant here. With OJ he screwed himself after he was found innocent. Apple has to be found in violation, not just have a complaint lodged against them.
I'm not allowed to cite what they are accused, by the US government, of?
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Except we already see that’s not the case. Europeans are already rumored to be losing the biggest selling point of the iPhone 16 on launch. congratulations! Victory!
The Samsung Galaxy Store surely provides no "direct competition" to Apple's App Store. It isn't even available on the same operating system and can't be installed on iPhones.
McDonald's doesn't operate in a duopoly for restaurants.
Guess what... there are other, third parties offering smartphones.
Also, why shouldn't Samsung just keep their pricing and take over Apple's market share?
Namely?
Someone is going to offer AI features in the EU. If not Apple, someone else will.
What's stopping third-party developer from offering a competing virtual assistant to Apple's Siri or AI functionality competing with Apple's?
When your biggest competitor raises their prices, I promise you that Samsung will do so as well. They have to compete with Apple. If Apple goes up, they can increase their prices too without repercussions.
There is obvious some give and take. But you’re kidding yourself if that doesn’t enter the into the equation of the decision makers at Samsung. Samsung will maximize their profits. Period.
Of course this is apple against Samsung. Not android against iOS. As long as there isn’t collusion there is nothing illegal about price increases on consumer discretionary items.
Samsung absolutely does provide competition to Apple in the mobile market. And the App market is a subset of the mobile market. The idea that Apple faces no competition is simply, obviously, untrue; this is a manufactured idea that is meant to create the illusion that Apple has 100% marketshare when in reality they only have about 18-20% in Spain. But you know this. You and the EU/Spain are inventing a new metric that doesn't apply anywhere else.
But that's not your argument. Apparently, according to you, Apple has a 100% marketshare of app stores inside of IOS. So, by that same argument, McDonalds has 100% marketshare inside of McDonalds. You keep changing your argument.
...which only supports that there's a lack of competition in the smartphone market - and/or their operating systems.
That is the very reason and justification for regulating this market.
What's that, AI? I consider them lucky. The less AI I'm subject to, the better.
Either way, that's Apples choice to do that. They aren't being told, or forced, they are just being pouty babies. 👶
Obviously with hundreds of manufacturers there is not lack of smartphone competition.
No lack there either. Just ban google from selling android and viola.
Nope that is not a reason.
Just telling you how the real world works. Take it for what it’s worth. Apple gets fined 10 billion. iPhones prices in Europe go up to account for it. Samsung raises their prices to maximize their profit. That is the end outcome. Congrats. Real world 1. Idealism 0.
It's corruption (have you seen the money EU's raking in? we need to get in on this!) at its finest. You should all be on Apple's side.
There are at least a dozen smartphone manufacturers and at least a dozen variations of operating systems. And Apple only has about 18-20% marketshare in Spain.
If your concern is that Google has 80% of the market, according to the way you're defining it, then it makes zero sense to try to punish Apple who is the only viable competition to Google (again, according to the way you're defining markets. If anything, you'd want to empower Apple to chip away at the company that has 80% marketshare. But none of this makes any sense in the context of actual competition in the mobile market.
I'm rarely on the side of any entity trying to appease shareholders over and above their customers.