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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by jsnell on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:04PM (#39133512)
As far as I can tell, it's a bit more subtle than that. What Apple is doing is offering developers either the old deal (with all its now-illegal restrictions) or the new deal that removes the restrictions but adds the punitive Core Technology Fee. The intent is obviously for nobody with a large app to take the new deal, but for Apple to be able to claim that they've lowered the App Store fees and made allowed alternate stores.

I think Apple is delusional in thinking that the EU will buy into this scheme, but who knows.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by whimsicalism on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:00PM (#39135217)
It’s a play for time hoping public opinion will change
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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by blibble on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:06PM (#39134475)
> I think Apple is delusional in thinking that the EU will buy into this scheme, but who knows.

I think they're quite aware that they won't

but that will take half a decade, and in the meantime, Apple will have made another couple of hundred billion dollars

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by Vespasian on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:56PM (#39135167)
And it's a CYA against shareholder lawsuits.

If they give in "without a fight" by following the spirit of the law (or even the letter) they will use a lot of income.

Companies are not our friends (not our enemies either) and only form a fleeting alliance if the goal of makeing money aligns with the interest of the user.

On this subject, for this company it doesn't.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by zarzavat on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:53PM (#39135130)
The commission can (for example) put an import ban on iPhones/iPads until Apple starts complying with the commission’s interpretation of the DMA.

Apple is free to argue their hopeless interpretation in court, but in the short term they will not get away with these delaying tactics.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by blibble on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:01PM (#39135236)
> The commission can (for example) put an import ban on iPhones/iPads until Apple starts complying with the commission’s interpretation of the DMA.

yeah, but they won't

the euroskeptics would absolutely LOVE it if they did

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