EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants

Re:EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants by danieldk on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:37AM (#30801387)

This will lead to fragmentation where apps can only be bought in some app stores. Some will stay in the Apple app store, because people trust it. Others will flock to other stores to pay a lower commission fee.

Regardless, I am in favor of this legislation. The iOS and Android ecosystems have become crucial infrastructure in modern life. So either Apple and Google act more like they are a utilities companies with lower fees and a more fair, equal market [1] or they should be regulated.

Though I would have preferred if they EU had just set upper bounds for the commissions, etc. The result would have been less messy.

[1] No more private APIs that only they can use, etc.

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Re:EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants by Karunamon on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:52AM (#30801534)

This is the world that android already lives in, and there is no meaningful fragmentation in app stores. I think your fears are overblown.

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Re:EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants by Spivak on Saturday March 26, 2022 @01:23AM (#30809459)

This doesn’t really apply because the Play Store doesn’t have half as strict rules. If you’re point is “Apple will have to give up all the annoying for publisher but good for user rules to keep apps from leaving” then we’ve really gained nothing.

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