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  • Apple faces 500M euro fine following EU music probe

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    The EU is desperate to collect a penalty fee. In the U.S. legal system, Spotify wouldn't have had the standing to complain since they had already moved 99% of their iOS subscribers to web payments WITHOUT needing any kind of in-app communication. Nothing about their financial reality supported the complaint. Not the revenue part of it or the communication part of it. 
    Yes, with a nominal GDP of almost US$20 trillion projected for 2024, I'm sure they're desperate to collect 500 million Euro from a company violating existing antitrust laws. 
    baconstangmuthuk_vanalingamblastdoornubusgrandact73michelb76

  • Apple faces 500M euro fine following EU music probe

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    rhbellmor said:
    As an Apple shareholder I hope Apple has factored this cost of doing business in Europe into their pricing in Europe.  Seems to me Europe looks at large U.S. tech companies like Apple to pay for their bloated national budgets.
    Apple has been factoring in the higher cost of doing business here for over forty years, rest assured. 

    Social security, mandatory health insurance payments, employment regulations (legal paid vacation, mandatory deadlines for firing people, etc.), mandatory warranty on all products — all those things and a thousand more have always been factored into their pricing schemes. 
    williamlondonbaconstangwatto_cobramichelb76jbdragon

  • Epic's Tim Sweeney is mad about Apple's EU App Store concessions

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    Madbum said:
    A restaurant can chose to refuse service to anyone
    Research the subject: you will find that this is not actually true. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • EU backs down, won't force Apple to open iMessage to rivals

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    dutchlord said:
    Missed opportunity to create cross platform compatibility. Why I still can only send sms to non-Apple users is a mystery to me. As a user I want to send messages including attachments, to all platforms. In this sense, Apple is not customer centric at all.
    I can't send messages including attachments from WhatsApp to Signal or to Telegram, either. 

    Apple included MMS messaging that does exactly what you want, but most providers no longer support it (and when they did, they charged like 0.39€/message). 
    watto_cobra

  • Don't try to sneak an Apple Vision Pro into Germany, the import cops will nab you

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    Sometimes, the difference in price more than offsets the price of a cheap Icelandair flight to NYC. 
    watto_cobraAlex1N