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  • Brazil wants its piece of the App Store anti-competition fines Apple faces worldwide

    nubusnubus
    rob53 said:
    These countries are a bunch of cockroaches. They can’t make anything themselves so they simply try forcing Apple to open everything up so they get stuff for free. Apple needs to double the cost of Apple products on every country that tries to sue them. The second thing will be to limit capabilities and/or to not sell to those countries. 
    Other nations are not cockroaches. That is one toxic view on other nations. And you would punish Brazil by selling inferior versions of US products? The Chinese would love that. Or you would stop buying coffee and regional jets neither of which are produced in the US? The alternative to Embraer is Airbus A220. Would that be any better?

    China is funding a $80b rail project in Brazil and Peru. A modern Panama Canal. In 5 years the shipping time from Brazil to Shanghai will match that to Los Angeles. While the Chinese are actively taking control over your backyard the US isn't investing in a competing north-south rail link to help US companies. Instead you're giving away tax cuts making it even harder to finance a response. Being shortsighted is not how to win against the Chinese. Keep America relevant!
    muthuk_vanalingamdewme

  • Apple Vision Pro with M5 may arrive before the end of 2025

    nubusnubus
    Why only update the SoC of a low volume form factor where the SoC is not the main gripe from users? 
    You're absolutely right but M2 in a flagship product is beyond embarrassing. If Apple isn't capable of doing anything else before a full reset in 2027/28 then launching M5 is the thing to do. Preferably cut $1k and accept the reduced margin while building next generation.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

    nubusnubus
    ericthehalfbee said:
    Are you honestly going to say that a company with 20 million customers should be exempt because they’re not big enough? Seriously?
    I simply quoted EU legislation on how gatekeepers are defined. Shouldn't be a problem to bring facts to the table.
    avon b7williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    Apple should simply drop fees to some ridiculously low level in the EU (5% for small developers, 8% for everyone else). There’d be no reason for any developer to want to roll their own store
    You can't be a gatekeeper (EU term) or hold a monopoly (US DOJ) and then use one product (smartphones) to get a monopoly on reselling software. Not by blocking competition or by "drop fees to some ridiculously low level" in order to use one monopoly to gain another.

    As for "what about Sony". The EU DMA regulation requires 45 million active users for companies to be seen as gatekeepers. Sony is at 30-35 million. Doesn't stop other cases to hit Sony. This week a Dutch case on "Sony Tax" hit courts.
    9secondkox2ericthehalfbeewilliamlondonemig647muthuk_vanalingam

  • Bipartisan 'Open App Markets Act' resurrected to challenge Apple's App Store control

    nubusnubus
    Globally, it looks like legislators think App Store commissions are the big bad wolf and crypto/AI are warm, fuzzy bunnies. Bizarre at best. 
    If you feel EU regulations on AI and crypto are warm, fuzzy bunnies, then these are for you:
    AI: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng
    Crypto: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1114/oj/eng

    Would you say that these are fuzzy bunnies compared to the EU DMA?

    My take is that the politicians in EU and nationally in the countries at times (often) are regulating rather hard, but then... try to implement Sarbanes–Oxley or other US acts that have a global impact. Staying compliant is part of business.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam