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  • EU antitrust chief remarks about $2 billion Apple Music fine ignores Spotify dominance

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    That's because it was never about "consumer harm", but rather about bringing Apple to heel.

    Simple.
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  • Denver to pay $3.76M to grandmother due to "Find My" error

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    msuberly said:
    Until individual cops are held responsible for misconduct this will keep happening.

    Qualified immunity needs to end.

    Without qualified immunity, no person in his or her right mind would dare go into law enforcement.  With no officers going into the civilian police force, the government will have no option but to turn to the military to maintain law and order.  Do you really want marshal law?

    Six U.S. states (that I know of) have passed laws that prohibit or limit the use of qualified immunity as a defense in state courts: Colorado, Nevada, Montana, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, along with New York City.  If those states have had a problem hiring qualified officers, I haven't heard about it.
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  • Third-party App Stores will only work for 30 days if you leave the EU

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    sirdir said:
    Thank you so much Apple! You blocking me from re-downloading an app I paid for or even updating it when I move out of EU-land es CLEARLY you looking out for me, not you showing your ugly control-freak face. After 25 years of almost 'Apple only' lifestyle, I'm quickly reaching a point where I had enough… 

    Why on earth would you want to move out of "EU-land"?
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  • EU tells Apple to justify its blocking of Epic Games

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    gatorguy said:
    macxpress said:
    Apple doesn't owe anyone an explanation. It's their damn store with their rules which were violated by Epic games. Just because someone is crying like a little baby because they can't have it their way doesn't mean Apple should bend over for anyone. The EU is just plain ridiculous. Don't they have more important issues to tend to rather than try and make continuous headlines by basically bullying a multi-billion multi-$trillion company to justify their existence? 
    Corrected

    You didn't "correct" their post, you merely made it more precise.  A multi-trillion dollar company is also a multi-billion dollar company. 😉
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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    9secondkox2 said:
    jmaximus said:
    Why does Apple assume they have monopoly on security? It is a rather faulty assumption that none else can make a secure or even more secure App Store. 

    DMA will overrule this and allow fair competition on the platform. 
    LOL. 

    Look around. There is literally no one that does what apple does and keeps a commitment to security and privacy. No one. It’s a rather massive deal. 

    There never was unfairness in the platform. All the eu is doing is trying to force socialism in a capitalistic company. Recipe for disaster. Robbing the platform provider to pay openly hostil developers is not a viable solution to a problem that never existed. 
    More fascist than socialist.  Socialist would be if the EU nationalized Apple and took the company away from the shareholders, making EU the owner.

    Requiring a company not owned by the government to do business as the government demands is a hallmark of fascism.  Benito would be proud.

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