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  • EU antitrust chief to meet with Tim Cook to discuss fines and regulation

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    AllM said:
    avon b7 said:

    GDPR is an absolutely necessary piece of legislation. A model to follow and considered one of the best stabs at protecting EU citizens in the digital age.

    To many here it's the silent shield. Without it, Meta would have been deep into our underwear and way up our nooks and crannies!

    It's what saved EU WhatsApp users from many of those nasty privacy changes Meta tried to slip in a while back.

    No legislation is perfect and it will get revised but I'd rather have it over any alternative. 

    What’sWhat? Isn’t it better not to use crap products in the first place rather than rely on legislation to protect you? 
    That ship sailed long before Meta ever bought WhatsApp. 

    The only reason Meta bought them was because WhatsApp was already the by far dominant messaging service. 
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  • EU antitrust chief to meet with Tim Cook to discuss fines and regulation

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    rob53 said:
    I always find it interesting that the EU only brings in American companies to try and regulate. 
    That is a complete and utter lie, and I will call you out on it every time you blather it. 

    80% of EU antitrust rulings concern European companies. 
    Respite

  • Masimo has spent $100M in Apple Watch patent infringement fight

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    slurpy said:
    People are still gullible enough to buy this "I'm fighting for the little guy, against big baddie Apple, even if I lose everything, I'm doing it for virtue and justice!" horse-shit?

    Yep, apparently people are, even on this very forum. Stunning how some of you are so easily propagandized. 
    Masimo aren't "the little guy". They're a $6 BILLION company. (They briefly reached about 15 billion during Covid.) They've been building pulse oximetry equipment for health care for 25 years. 

    Stuff like this is their bread and butter: 


    This is NOT some patent troll going after Apple for easy money. This lawsuit is not easy money — it has already cost them $100 million, and it's unclear whether they will win. 

    But these guys are going after Apple because they were there first, they've been doing it — and doing it well — for a LONG time. 


    [Edit: Thanks for the correction, Tht]
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  • EU set to slam Apple with antitrust order over App Store practices and Spotify battle

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    spheric said:
    Why only music streaming? Does it have something to do with Spotify being an European company ߧবt;/div>
    No. It has to do with Spotify being the actual company that filed the complaint being investigated here. 

    I'm sure they could have filed a complaint about automotive parts distribution disadvantaging third-party mechanics — but they happen to be a music streaming company, so that's what they filed a complaint about. 
    Spotify's complaint to the EU had no relevance to their own business. Less than 1% of their iOS subscribers were paying through the App Store. Which means that iPhone users somehow knew that their smartphone could access more than just the App Store. There were things called "the internet" and "social media" that also contained information about apps and pricing. 
    The question was, “Why only music streaming? Does it have something to do with Spotify being an European company?”

    No. It does not. It has to do with the fact that Spotify’s complaint dealt specifically with the streaming sector. 

    That’s simple statement of fact, and the competence or incompetence of regulatory bodies or of individuals within those bodies is rather irrelevant to that. 

    Also, “no relevance” and “1%” of more than 100 billion revenue are contradictory. A billion Euro is rather a lot of money, when your business model isn’t working and you’re still losing the artists’ money hand over fist… 
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  • EU set to slam Apple with antitrust order over App Store practices and Spotify battle

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    Why only music streaming? Does it have something to do with Spotify being an European company ߧবt;/div>
    No. It has to do with Spotify being the actual company that filed the complaint being investigated here. 

    I'm sure they could have filed a complaint about automotive parts distribution disadvantaging third-party mechanics — but they happen to be a music streaming company, so that's what they filed a complaint about. 
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