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avon b7 said:

This is part of what the EU had to say:

"Today's decision concludes that Apple's anti-steering provisions amount to unfair trading conditions, in breach of Article 102(a) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU'). These anti-steering provisions are neither necessary nor proportionate for the protection of Apple's commercial interests in relation to the App Store on Apple's smart mobile devices and negatively affect the interests of iOS users, who cannot make informed and effective decisions on where and how to purchase music streaming subscriptions for use on their device.

Apple's conduct, which lasted for almost ten years, may have led many iOS users to pay significantly higher prices for music streaming subscriptions because of the high commission fee imposed by Apple on developers and passed on to consumers in the form of higher subscription prices for the same service on the Apple App Store.

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Apple makes no reference to its anti-competitive behaviour in its statement and instead tries to put the spotlight on Spotify, its European nature and music streaming.

Exactly, because this decision is based on supporting Spotify and a general Euro-jealousy of how successful US tech firms are.

As an Apple shareholder all I can say is "thank god", this was going to be a millstone around their neck. Hopefully they can transfer what they learned into CarPlay.

A company I am very familiar with makes millions of dollars selling VR headsets and software to companies like Ford and Boeing to test for "manufacturability" and "repairability". Exactly as one poster said, can the Boeing worker reach the bolts to tighten them. The cost of $3.5K is NOTHING to those companies. 

This falls into the category of stock price manipulation. He lets his buddies know that he is about to put out an "Apple is doomed" message  , they short the stock, and boom, millions made. As he is outside the US, the SEC can do nothing.

People already use VR googles extensively in many fields of engineering and simulation for their "daily" work. Maybe not for 8 hours at a time, but everyone needs to stop acting like the Vision Pro doesn't have many already existing  use cases where it is clearly superior to the competition.