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  • Apple protests criticism that it's not complying with EU laws

    teejay2012teejay2012
    The latest that I have read is that Apple will not be allowed to notarize any app from an alternative app store. Hands off completely? Call me crazy but that sounds like the EU commission will take some responsibility for app safety. I would think, if this is true, that Apple will need to change the warranty on iPhones, to exclude coverage on phones that have installed malware that have damaged the phone or caused any security issues. Of course iPhones can be reset (in most cases if not bricked) but you would really need to trust the developer and the alternate app store. No thanks for me.
    tmaywatto_cobra

  • Apple protests criticism that it's not complying with EU laws

    teejay2012teejay2012
    The EU Commission is 'bound' to hear all complaints... thereby ensuring that they will be employed forever, as the complaints from the Ek's and Sweeney's will be just that.. forever. Frankly the bureaucracy that has become the EU is mind boggling.
    tmayAllMwatto_cobra

  • Spotify upset over 9 day App Review, cries antitrust to EC

    teejay2012teejay2012
    Daniel Ek has the EU regulators on speed dial, and now even they are getting tired of Spotify constant whining.
    Like the old saying 'A watched app never gets approved.'
    williamlondonh2pwatto_cobra

  • EU DMA architect says Apple seems to want to be fined for non-compliance

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    I think Apple is expecting this to go to EU courts as Verstager has a history of policy and regulation that has been successfully challenged on legal grounds. Contracts are contracts, and Epic deliberately broke theirs with Apple. Apple had every legal right to terminate Epic, from a US court ruling and those contracts are signed in Cupertino. It would not be wise for the EU to ignore contract laws anywhere, particularly in the US. Apple and EU may still remain reasonable in this, as Apple has asked for reassurances from Sweeney, and the EU has asked Apple for clarification. Apple can park whatever fine the EU imposes and those funds will grow in escrow, like in the Irish tax case, and be returned if they get a favourable court ruling. We can hope that cooler heads prevail here, as destroying companies and markets can never be good.
    mobird9secondkox2watto_cobra

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

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    spheric said:
    mike1 said:
    blitz1 said:

    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.

    Sorry. The European market is not a major consumer of US-based products outside of food and tech. Not sure how well BMW or Daimler or Airbus or Siemens or the French wine industry would feel about being targeted in one way or another. I generally dislike the idea of tariffs as they only hurt consumers, but inflicting retaliatory pain on European companies so they begin to influence EU decisions is fair game.
    a) Europe accounts for about a QUARTER of Apple's global revenue. Not sure how you consider that "not major". 

    The EU market represents roughly 7% of Apple's global app store revenue.
    tmay