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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by KerrAvon on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:51AM (#32167510)
This is really not how it works. Private APIs are usually poorly designed for general use — safeguards for excess power consumption, etc, often don’t exist.

Many things will need to be rewritten; this legislation will result in significant delays in shipping new end-user features, if Apple doesn’t simply pull out of the EU, since the EU is demonstrating with this legislation that they don’t care about end-user privacy/security.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by webmobdev on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:34PM (#32168256)
> This will have an extremely high cost to Apple if it’s implemented.

Come on, do you really expect us to be sympathetic to a trillion dollar company if its profit margin reduces? (Which any way may not happen - realistically, they'll just pass on the cost to us consumers).