foregoneconclusion said:

gatorguy said: What revenue? If Apple complies then there are no fines. Both Google and Microsoft have already dealt with this. For Apple, it's all new. 

The $1.8 billion fine per supposed "abusive" rules for music streaming in the App Store. If you actually look at the history of music streaming on iOS, the level of the fine is totally ridiculous. Spotify, the main complainant, only offered IAP for a total of two years on the App Store and only one of those years involved Apple Music as a competitor. The reality is that Spotify's preferred approach to the App Store was available to them right from the start: have the free ad-supported version available to download from the App Store and have the premium subscription version only available for sign-up online. Apple didn't receive any commission from that approach and Spotify was able to successfully grow their business using it. 

Look at these stats for the United States alone...Spotify's business started a dramatic upward curve in 2016. Abuse? It has no basis in reality. 
https://www.statista.com/statistics/293749/spotify-pandora-number-active-users/

"In setting the level of the fine, the Commission took into account the duration and gravity of the infringement as well as Apple's total turnover and market capitalization. It also factored in that Apple submitted incorrect (aka untruthful) information in the framework of the administrative procedure.

In addition, the Commission decided to add to the basic amount of the fine an additional lump sum of €1.8 billion to ensure that the overall fine imposed on Apple is sufficiently deterrent. Such lump sum fine was necessary in this case because a significant part of the harm caused by the infringement consists of non-monetary harm, which cannot be properly accounted for under the revenue-based methodology as set out in the Commission's 2006 Guidelines on Fines. In addition, the fine must be sufficient to deter Apple from repeating the present or a similar infringement; and to deter other companies of a similar size and with similar resources from committing the same or a similar infringement.

The Commission has concluded that the total amount of the fine of over €1.8 billion is proportionate to Apple's global revenues and is necessary to achieve deterrence."

As I said in the earlier post, Google and Microsoft fines were not solely dependent on the monetary damages to others for breaking competition law and fined $Billions for it. They've been there and learned that fines are sometimes meant to discourage a repeat of the same behavior.  Apple is pushing the limits to see how it applies to its own practices, and they're certainly rich enough to test the waters. 

Edit: Heck, take that piddling amount of money out of its stock buyback program since no one would notice it anyway. It will have a near zero impact on Apple's wealth, IMHO.