spheric

Xed said:

spheric said:

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. 

GDP isn't the same profit, so 500,000,000 € with very little comparative legal and administrative overhead does sound like a huge boon to me.

What does that even mean? 

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. 

Given that it's necessary to record spatial video, and all future Apple devices will have to be able to record spatial video if Apple is going to establish the standard, this really is a no-brainer. 

I'm sure the Core Technology Fee is going to be challenged. We'll see how it goes. 

So…they're treating Vision Pro just like the Mac? 

Makes sense to me.