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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by unity1001 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:18AM (#32177242)
Wow. All of those points that you listed ARE the reasons why nobody in Europe will take Apple's side when left-wing European MPs start telling their constituents about all those stuff.

Actually they do - thats the reason why that law was passed. That kind of thing may fly in the US, but not elsewhere.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by dvfjsdhgfv on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:01AM (#32189329)
Of course. But these points aren't aimed at the EU (they don't have a leg to stand on, at most they can say they need more time but they can't really find good arguments against the new law). The way I see it, Apple has 3 options:

1) Appeal to infinity, using all resources they can.

2) Comply but make things so difficult for the user that they effectively retain the control over the device as before. (Anybody remembers browserchoice.eu?)

3) Convince the US government the law goes too far and they should intervene. Given the war in Ukraine, it would be extremely easy to convince the countries bordering with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine they should support the USA in this case.

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