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

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    darelrex said:
    It's not just the size of the fine that's retroactive; it's the whole idea that Apple has been violating the law for years. Apple's had the same App Store rules for 16 years (if anything, they've just gotten more lax), long before it was even a small fraction of its current valuation, and long before iPhone was much more than a sliver of the mobile market. Nobody running the EU thought anything was illegal about it. But now that iPhone is a trillion-dollar, smash success, suddenly it's not only illegal, but it's been illegal for years, and we need to hit them up for that.
    You do realise that laws apply even when nobody notices that they‘re being violated, do you? 

    If you murder someone who isn’t missed for ten years, your defense that nobody pointed it out to law enforcement for ten years is probably not going to fly. 

    But yes, antitrust laws work differently when you’re big enough to violate them. 
    muthuk_vanalingamavon b7

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

    sphericspheric
    Interesting, thanks! And probably sufficient grounds for a plea to reduce the fine. 
    watto_cobra

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

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    darelrex said:
    AppleInsider said:

    "[The fine is] the equivalent of 0.5% of global turnover, so obviously, this is not a fine that would sort of shake Apple as such," [Vestager] told CNBC.

    I don't think Apple is comparing the amount of this fine to its annual global revenue, but rather to its annual EU app store profits. That's not 0.5%; it's more like 130%.
    Yeah, but that can't be the yardstick. "I have a trillion dollars, and I'm using my financial clout to fuck over competitors in this tiny market that doesn't really matter much to my financials — so my punishment needs to be appropriate to the piddling amount I make with my illegal behaviour, and not enough to, you know, actually punish me." 
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

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

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    dmitrek said:
    Well it's good that he said that Apple is punished for the past behaviour. I think laws does not have backward power and past behaviour can not be objected.

    The antitrust legislation they violated has existed for decades.

    There is absolutely nothing retroactive here. 
    The law existed, Apple broke it, someone complained, Apple got investigated and now gets punished. 
    The end (until appeal).
    avon b7williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple Vision Pro one month review: a new reality is setting in

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    Rogue01 said:
    Probably explains why Cult of Mac confirmed a 76% return rate on the Vision Pro. 

    Wow. That's pretty epic media competence failure there, on your part. 

    "76% of respondents on loaded internet poll about product important enough for CEO of main competitor to make 15-minute video about it claim to be returning product they aren't verified to have purchased"

    "Confirmed", indeed. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra