App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline

Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by 9point6 on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:13PM (#39008201)

This is how these EU regulations get their teeth: turnover not profit and global not local to a region—they can't creatively account their way out of the fine and it's always going to be big enough to really want to avoid, no matter the size of the company. None of this "the fine is just the permit fee for those that can afford it" attitude.

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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by theshrike79 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:11AM (#39010015)

And it's not the company, it's the whole conglomerate.

So Google can't just make an EU subsidiary that never makes a profit and thus the fines don't have teeth.

It's the global turnover of Alphabet Corporation.

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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by extraduder_ire on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @06:14AM (#39026240)

I have to assume at least one company is going to try setting up a company, completely divesting from it, and contracting it to perform operations in the EU. With an open process for tender, even.

Not that it'd work, but might be amusing.

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