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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by acta_non_verba on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:53AM (#26992742)
Side note: Please stop using EU and Europe interchangeably, they are not the same thing. 100s of millions of people live on the continent of Europe, but not in the EU.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by kryptiskt on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:57AM (#26992782)
I'll do that when US people stop using America and Americans to describe themselves.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by anoncake on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:54AM (#26993496)
Why? That's hardly the fault of, say, the Swiss.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by nolok on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:46AM (#26994110)
I don't disagree with you, but you couldn't really have picked a worst example (short of an an actual EU member country) given how their bilateral treaties with the EU means EU rules apply to do business in non-EU Switzerland.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by anoncake on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:17AM (#27005666)
That applies to EEA members too.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by acta_non_verba on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:49AM (#26993423)
Yes, disenfranchising hundreds of millions of people on the European continent sure gets those Americans
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