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  • Apple may be hit with a big antitrust fine in France over App Tracking Transparency

    nubus said:
    The corporate culture at Apple could be the reason why we get cases like "we have the right to do price fixing" with iBooks ...
    When Kindle was the only e-book game in town, it set the price of every book, and if you didn't like it, get lost. Then Apple ruined it for them by launching iBooks with the policy "you choose the price of your book and we'll keep 30%". Only in an upside-down world could Apple, not Amazon, get charged with "price fixing" — but if you're the DOJ, you have to go after the deep pocket, not the dry hole of edge-of-profitability Amazon.
    badmonkentropysAlex1Ndavenwatto_cobra
  • Apple still effectively blocks rival browser engines on iOS despite EU order

    Over two years after Apple implemented the DMA's requirement that EU companies (or companies with developers in the EU) be allowed to develop and deploy their own HTML rendering engines for iOS (in "competition" with Apple's), none of the firms that clamored for it have actually done it — because they were lying the whole time! What they really wanted was an opportunity to ram invasive, Trojan-horse spyware down the users' throats, and Apple has gone to great lengths to do what the DMA actually says, while not enabling what it doesn't.

    It will be interesting to see if the EU yet again fines Apple for violating the "spirit" of the law, meaning, "We weren't able to pass a law requiring you to allow invasive spyware, but you know that's we want, so just do it already, or we'll keep fining the hell out of you."
    thtdanoxwilliamlondonbeowulfschmidt
  • Cellebrite acquires iPhone virtualization firm Corellium for $200M

    Corellium won the right to lift iOS in its entirety, without Apple's permission, on the grounds that security research is "fair use". Now Corellium is completely owned by Cellebrite, the company that for years trained police to skirt the court processes of legal discovery and truthful testimony, in order to keep its iPhone-hacking device's existence and functionality secret from Apple for as long as possible. Indeed, what could possibly go wrong?

    If I were Apple, I would seriously think about re-opening that copyright suit on the grounds that there's nothing "fair use" about Celebrite's entire business and history.
    williamlondonappleinsideruserwatto_cobra
  • Apple may be hit with a big antitrust fine in France over App Tracking Transparency

    Just in case anyone was unclear, 10% of Apple's current global revenue is roughly equivalent to all the profits Apple has made from all of its products/services in the entire EU (not just France) from January 2007 when Jobs unveiled iPhone, to today. I'm sure Apple will fork over that much money just for the privilege of staying in France for another few months or years until they decide to hit Apple with another fine that big (or twice that big, per the EU's plan for repeat "offenses"). J'en suis tellement sûr.
    badmonkwatto_cobra
  • EU antitrust chief remarks about $2 billion Apple Music fine ignores Spotify dominance

    It's not just the size of the fine that's retroactive; it's the whole idea that Apple has been violating the law for years. Apple's had the same App Store rules for 16 years (if anything, they've just gotten more lax), long before it was even a small fraction of its current valuation, and long before iPhone was much more than a sliver of the mobile market. Nobody running the EU thought anything was illegal about it. But now that iPhone is a trillion-dollar, smash success, suddenly it's not only illegal, but it's been illegal for years, and we need to hit them up for that. What's $2 billion here, $5 billion there, to a $3T company? They'll probably just pay, right?

    But Apple's thinking, what happens in the long run if we do pay this? Next thing we know, every government in the world is hitting us up for big bucks, and demanding we trash our most successful product so the "little guys" can screw with it. Better to draw a line now, than to wait until it gets much, much worse.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple Stores reportedly stall growth at top US shopping malls

    Let me get this straight: If you purposely omit a high-dollar-but-low-growth store from your statistics about a given mall, then the average growth will be higher? Quick, call the National Guard.

    Will somebody please inform Mr. Mathrani that this will always be true? It's just math, and it isn't going to change while we're around to see it happen. Maybe our great-grandchildren will live to see the rules of math change, but we won't be so lucky.
    jasenj1