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  • Apple still effectively blocks rival browser engines on iOS despite EU order

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    Over two years after Apple implemented the DMA's requirement that EU companies (or companies with developers in the EU) be allowed to develop and deploy their own HTML rendering engines for iOS (in "competition" with Apple's), none of the firms that clamored for it have actually done it — because they were lying the whole time! What they really wanted was an opportunity to ram invasive, Trojan-horse spyware down the users' throats, and Apple has gone to great lengths to do what the DMA actually says, while not enabling what it doesn't.

    It will be interesting to see if the EU yet again fines Apple for violating the "spirit" of the law, meaning, "We weren't able to pass a law requiring you to allow invasive spyware, but you know that's we want, so just do it already, or we'll keep fining the hell out of you."
    thtdanoxwilliamlondonbeowulfschmidt

  • Proton lawsuit targets Apple's grip on iPhone apps & payments

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    Proton: "Apple’s 30% fees act as an artificial and arbitrary tax on internet commerce."

    Yes, Proton, every store in history has had an "arbitrary" markup that "artificially" taxes the purchases made in that store. So what?

    If you don't like the markup at Target, go shop at Walmart. If you still don't like the Walmart markup, go shop at a flea market. If you don't like the entry fee at the flea market, go shop in a back alley on the street. Eventually you will find the hideous shopping environment you seek.

    But prohibiting Target from charging any markup will not give you the Target shopping experience with zero-markup prices. It will simply destroy Target. Of course, if that's what you really wanted all along...
    strongy

  • Cellebrite acquires iPhone virtualization firm Corellium for $200M

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    Corellium won the right to lift iOS in its entirety, without Apple's permission, on the grounds that security research is "fair use". Now Corellium is completely owned by Cellebrite, the company that for years trained police to skirt the court processes of legal discovery and truthful testimony, in order to keep its iPhone-hacking device's existence and functionality secret from Apple for as long as possible. Indeed, what could possibly go wrong?

    If I were Apple, I would seriously think about re-opening that copyright suit on the grounds that there's nothing "fair use" about Celebrite's entire business and history.
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  • Apple appeals against EU mandate that it freely share its technology

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    avon b7 said:
    The EU has every right to level playing fields and counter consumer harm and the stifling of innovation.

    ... 
    Is there anything the EU could possibly demand of Apple that you would not call "leveling the playing field"? Should Apple's chip team be required to provide chips to Apple's competitors? Should Apple be required to license iOS to its competitors? Should it be required to allow installation of alternate OSes on iPhone and iPad? Do you have any sane legal theory of which features of its products a company should be allowed to control, and which it should be forced to turn into third-party flea markets — or do you say "leveling the playing field" when you really mean leveling Apple with any frightfully damaging fairness fantasy that comes down the regulatory pike, simply so that Apple won't be so successful any more, and the playing field therefore will be more "level"?
    tiredskillswilliamlondonToroidalihatescreennamesdanoxrob53chiatimpetus9secondkox2haluks

  • Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney calls Apple a 'gangster-style' business

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    "The sad truth is that Apple and Google are no longer good-faith, law-abiding companies," said the Epic Games CEO.


    The sad truth is that Sweeney wants to do an end-run around Apple's and Google's 30% markups, and they won't let him. Meanwhile, nobody gets to do an end-run around Sweeney's Epic Games store's fees. And the sad truth is that Sweeney doesn't want to spend his several-billion-dollar personal fortune on creating his own smartphone platform that will probably fail, because why does anyone want to switch from iPhone or Android to Sweeney's pointless new smartphone, just so he doesn't have to endure a 30% markup that he despises?
    mdwdewmewilliamlondonStrangeDaysbaconstangwatto_cobra