Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by keymone on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:13AM
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it's a tax. as long as apple's walled garden is so much better than anything else - no reason to worry.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by marticode on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:18AM
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The EU is already investigating Apple management of the App Store. Regulation is coming and one has to wonder much walled and profitable the garden will stay.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by trilila on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:36AM
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The EU is investigating an awful lot of US companies.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by thrower123 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:52AM
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The EU would need to demonstrate that it's teeth are sharp and big enough to actually break the skin on those companies.
Most likely result is Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook buy them off for some trivial (for them anyway) amount of money.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by trilila on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:03AM
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Just like German car makers bought the EU, in exchange for protectionist measures and to get away with emissions that have destroyed a continent's climate? How come the EU is not looking more inwards, or into Chinese company practices, but instead it focuses on American tech giants? Politics perhaps?
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by marticode on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:11AM
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Apple has had a 13 billion Euro tax bill out of it. Google is adding browser and search selection in Android in a pro-active move. I would say this is certainly a show of teeth.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by skrowl on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:31AM
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Apple is going to be forced to allow other app stores onto their phone like Android does (although Android did it without any laws forcing them to).
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
by Mindwipe on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:49AM
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If you're an Apple shareholder I would be very worried about anti-trust concerns on this point in Europe especially but also the US.
I would actively price in this going away in Europe, never mind being a risk.