teejay2012

I am not looking for more apps asking for access to my financial information. Given how uninformed my own bank is on any technical issues, I would hardly trust them with NFC. I trust Apple and I like the convenience of Apple Pay. Consumers will vote of course but the banks and other vendors will need to buy the votes as they won't win on security or convenience imo.

They are just making it up as they go along. In what world was Spotify with its music monopoly going to be the poster child of abuse by Apple's policies? One can only hope that Vestager's 'commission' of pencil pushing, fine generating EU bureaucrats is still constrained by actual laws, precedents and impartial judges. Yes, the DMA is 'law' but the arbitrary nature of fines and lack of clearly defined details as to what would be non compliance, is not lawful. Nor is it business friendly. Vestager is done as chair in the fall, and she will not be involved in the court challenges by Apple and other US tech companies. However her name will come up when hopefully Apple wins... just as it did with the Irish-tax case that she lost...  And yes I do know that is under appeal, but it is going nowhere. Vestager is out of control with her personal vendetta against Apple.

It is increasingly clear that the target for Vestager is Apple itself. Not its policies. Next she will announce the maximum price that Apple can charge for an iPhone. A fine of 1B per day is obviously not sustainable and Apple would be out of business within 6 months if it paid. It is noteworthy that she decided on 'global revenue' and not from the EU countries as that would be about 100M per day. In contrast Japan has introduced potential fines based on revenue from Japan which is more fair.  The EU has backed Apple into a corner and the only option may be to leave the EU. 

avon b7 said:

Why was iCloud the only cloud backup option for iOS Whatsapp users for so long?

Privacy?

Can you tell me why it was impossible to take a picture and simply direct transfer it to another non-iOS user via Bluetooth?
Trivial issue. Many ways to transfer.

The next stop should be opening up cloud migration. Another huge barrier to switching platforms.

Comparison of features vs price, I am not seeing a huge win by transferring. I like that full backup of private data is encrypted and not outside of Apple

Next stop is to see if a fine is deemed necessary by the EU, how much, and on what specific grounds.

Vestager makes it up as she goes along. Fines based on feelings not defined laws is unacceptable in business. She is really out of control

It not inconceivable for someone to call for complete severance of Apple services from Apple hardware.

Apple will be gone from EU if that was ever pushed. Apple does not need EU member countries (not the often referred 'Europe' market) to remain a very profitable company.

Lettuce said:

The childish comments against the EU in this thread are pathetic, and once more show how low intellectual level has fallen in the US. 

Agree some are over the top, but the sentiment is directed against an EU bureaucracy that is out of control, and attention seeking politicians like Vestager who have projected her personal vendetta against Apple (after she was embarrassed in the Apple-Irish tax case) into huge arbitrary fines that are not related to defined laws but her own 'feelings' of whether Apple is compliant. Don't take it personally but don't be a cheerleader for EU government mediocrity. That is pathetic.  And don't mistake Apple's decisions to withhold features as some sort of retaliation. Companies run on profit, not retaliation. If fines exceed profit, it would make NO sense to stay in EU.