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  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

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    Of course the EU has every right to tell Apple what to do. It’s called the law. And if Apple doesn’t like the EU legislation, then they can call it quits.
    muthuk_vanalingamsphericPanda_Mickctt_zhwilliamlondon

  • EU launches mass DMA violation probes against Apple, Google, and Meta

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    Love to see you all whine about the very, very bad, no good EU.

    Popcorn time
    hecalderwilliamlondon

  • EU launches mass DMA violation probes against Apple, Google, and Meta

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    EU to Apple: We’re done being nice. Playtime is over!
    nubus9secondkox2williamlondon

  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    mike1 said:
    The US should really should be targeting European companies that do significant business in the US and start finding (or making up) reasons to issue significant fines and other penalties. Every time the EU targets an American-based company, the US should do the same. Time to start putting some retaliatory pressure on the EU.
    Our market is much too important to the US.

    Our iPhones will work differently from the US iPhones. 
    We'll have more options and more freedom to choose.
    williamlondonnubus9secondkox2

  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    avon b7 said:
    This is part of what the EU had to say:
    "Today's decision concludes that Apple's anti-steering provisions amount to unfair trading conditions, in breach of Article 102(a) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU'). These anti-steering provisions are neither necessary nor proportionate for the protection of Apple's commercial interests in relation to the App Store on Apple's smart mobile devices and negatively affect the interests of iOS users, who cannot make informed and effective decisions on where and how to purchase music streaming subscriptions for use on their device.
    Nutshell: EU is arguing that smartphone users only have access to information that's inside the App Store and apps. They're totally ignoring the fact that an iPhone also has access to the internet, social media, phone calls/texts, email and push notifications. Apple doesn't control the content in any of those. The idea that consumers in 2024 have no idea where to get information without the app telling them is TOTALLY BONKERS. 
    Again, the American contributors, believing the 0-meridian runs through Cupertino have a hard time understanding this fine.

    It's not that the iPhone does not allow users to surf on the net to find the information on Spotify's site.
    It's that the App Store is designed in such a way that the information about one product is harder to get than the information about another product.

    And, guess what, it's not Apple Music's info that is harder to get.

    Is that clear enough?

    To be really crystal: as an IPhone buyer, I bought an IPhone: not an Apple products push engine.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonnubusspheric