Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ...
by bryanrasmussen on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:03AM
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>Sure I understand that, but personally as an iPhone user I don't care.
I suspect the law is not structured so as to take your personal interest into consideration.
>I think the idea that competition in this area will benefit users is highly dubious.
this seems a very American concept of anti-trust, benefiting consumers is only one part of what concerns European anti-trust, in this case the question is does Apple Music have an unfair advantage on the platform against other music services - the answer would appear to be yes, for actually two points -
1. because they don't have the pay the fee the other music services have to pay
2. because they are not artificially restricted from communicating alternative methods of subscribing to their customers (because they don't need to because they are Apple)
I suspect the law is not structured so as to take your personal interest into consideration.
>I think the idea that competition in this area will benefit users is highly dubious.
this seems a very American concept of anti-trust, benefiting consumers is only one part of what concerns European anti-trust, in this case the question is does Apple Music have an unfair advantage on the platform against other music services - the answer would appear to be yes, for actually two points -
1. because they don't have the pay the fee the other music services have to pay
2. because they are not artificially restricted from communicating alternative methods of subscribing to their customers (because they don't need to because they are Apple)