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Apple must pay EU $14 billion over Ireland tax arrangement
cropr said:The title is misleading: Apple must not pay the amount to the EU, but to the Irish government. The court has decided that the reduced tax rate must be considered as illegal government aid to a private company. This illegal aid must be reimbursed to Ireland. -
Epic wants Apple held in contempt of court for not following through on removing anti-stee...
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Long-running App Store monopoly lawsuit gains class-action status
avon b7 said:I found a heavily redacted file of the case,(. pdf):
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Apple-iPhone-motion-for-class-cert.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi007HX44-EAxVQgP0HHT_kB2A4FBAWegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw0XWOmus6tWTw53K-NTONpN
And this was part of that:
"First, Prof. McFadden investigated what app store commission rates Apple would have charged in a competitive but-for world (“BFW”). But for Apple’s anticompetitive conduct, therewould have been non-Apple iOS app stores, against which Apple’s App Store would have had to compete to sell apps and IAP to iOS device consumers; as a result, Apple would have charged lower, competitive commission rates. Prof. McFadden has determined that the BFW commission rate would have ranged from 10% to 12%. Prof. McFadden based this range on various benchmarkanalyses he performed as well as his analysis of Apple’s App Store profit margin. Byrd Decl., Ex.K, ¶ 136."
I wonder what he thinks about Apple’s EU proposals?
It is going to be interesting to eventually see what Apple is not revealing here.
Curiously, while searching for that I saw some sites saying his testimony had been rejected. -
Is Apple's App Store a monopoly or a solution?
lam92103 said:No, I paid for the FULL iPhone, I want to use the FULL iPhoneWho the heck is Apple to tell me what I can and cannot do with a device I have paid for? They should refund my money, then they can have their device back to do whatever withYou bought a device knowing full well what’s the limits were you could have bought an android phone instead
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Here we go again - Apple rejects Hey Calendar app from App Store