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Wait, when was the last time investors threw $300M at a project that hinged entirely on the idea that we can easily take away Apple's successes? Oh yeah, that was Andy "Android" Rubin's "Essential" phone. All that money disappeared permanently, and …
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avon b7 said: ... ... This is about competition and access to standarised equipment (NFC). ... Not sure what Apple will do in response to this, but maybe they should mention that NFC is just a standardized way for a mobile device …
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avon b7 said: The user does not have that choice because they are never made aware of the limitations prior or at purchase. If they were, I could see Apple's problems in this area vanishing in one foul swoop but the EU would require the…
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I think it all boils down to this: The EU's competition authorities are operating on the theory that people who use Apple's iPhone should have a choice to use it Apple's way, or use it some other way (provided by other parties). And if Apple doesn't…
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cropr said: I do understand the EU. I am an app developer. From an app developer perspective, I can choose my payment system provider I want if my app is running on Windows, on Mac, on Linux and even on Android (although Google does not…
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caskey said: This is a total overreach. Would it be fair, for example, to force Square to allow other credit card processors like PayPal or Shopify’s software to use the Square credit card reader with their apps? There has to be a line drawn …
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I can't wait to see what happens when Apple get's fined 10% of its worldwide revenue over this. FYI, that's €35 billion ($37 billion), enough to buy more than seven of Apple's new spaceship ring campuses. And that's potentially just the first fine o…
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Let's say, arguendo, that Facebook is telling the truth, and that it would be a horrendously expensive, lengthy, and probably very damaging undertaking to attempt to comply with these new laws to the EU regulators' satisfaction. Now combine that wit…
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kmarei said: China forced apple to host its iCloud backups in china for Chinese market and to remove some apps (vpn apps) from Chinese market app store apple has done this before, just like they added the charger for iPhones sold in Franc…
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The biggest (and largely unspoken in this debate) problem with sideloading is that it's a portal for mass, casual piracy of third-party apps, especially mom-and-pop apps that don't depend on host servers. (That's why Epic Games is fine with this; th…
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corp1 said: Well at least Microsoft supports it: We support efforts by the European Union to adopt uniform, forward-looking regulation to ensure that these gatekeepers operate fairly and do not undermine the ability of others to compete. To t…
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22july2013 said: If I were Cook, I'd implement that by officially allowing users to get their side-loading by replacing iOS with Android on their iPhones. Doesn't this choice already exist? Go to the store and buy an Android phone or go t…
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crowley said: Last time I checked, bookstores don't have rules that you can't sell your book, which is written in the bookstore's own special language, at any other bookstores. Such comparisons don't really apply. Yet somehow, Epic's Fortn…
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Once upon a time, you went to a bookstore and bought a book, and if you paid cash, then nobody knew who bought the book. If you used a credit card (and maybe also a frequent-buyer card), then the bookstore knew who bought the book, but the publisher…
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Stabitha_Christie said: It’s always perplexing when people think corporations should act like children throwing an [sic] tantrum. You mean, like Epic Games?
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These App Store whiners get more bizarre every day. 1. What's "quiet" about this operation — are Apple's ads not flashy and annoying, like all other ads purchased from Google? Perhaps they are subliminally blinked/whispered at the very threshold of…
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Maybe Sweeney should speak about how his own Epic Games store is unfair because we can't all put games in it for free and get 100% of the money with Sweeney's Epic getting 0%. That would be fair; then Sweeney wouldn't have a monopoly over Epic Games…
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OutdoorAppDeveloper said: I don't like their chances. Their arguments are weak. Their demands are ridiculous. If you want to go after Apple's monopoly, you have to use the customer's right to chose what apps they can use on their iPhones. Tha…
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I think some people are just enamored of the idea that iPhone and iPad should function the same as personal computers in the '80s and '90s: a free-for-all where anyone can install anything — piracy, malware, funky system mods, you name it. And they'…
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All Apple wants here is certainty of law and its penalties. If a government official can levy fines of arbitrary amount, for unpredictable reasons, then the only hope for being able to do business in that region in the future is if its appellate cou…