As I'm not a lawyer, my understanding of their arguments is going to be strictly worse than ChatGPT's, and I know it.
And all we got was cookie banners
And it didn’t affect the big guys. It just made compliance harder for the little guys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222
It’s a regulatory nightmare for smaller companies.
Apple’s Ad Tracking Transparency did more to affect privacy - according to companies like Facebook that admitted on earnings calls that they projected billions in losses based on iOS users opting out
All of the AI regulations are just going to make companies say - forget it in the EU. How much longer did open AI take to come to the EU as opposed to the US?
IMO arguing about whether or not they are a monopoly is a losing pedantry battle that misses the point. People will bring up exact market share, and what exactly is a market—honestly, some good arguments about whether or not Apple is technically a monopoly—but, who cares? They are clearly a major player and so if they are not competing fairly that’s clearly a major problem.
How has any FTC action worked against a tech company in 30 years? Even Microsoft just got a slap on the wrist
In this case of Apple, we had a real judge in the Epic case saying that Apple is not a monopoly
Related, it also failed in the civil case brought by Epic
For example, a trademark or a copyright or a patent is a monopoly on the use of that IP, and those are considered "good" by the governments and courts.
In my (IANAL) opinion, I think the important question for a mobile app store needs to be: do users and developers have a meaningful choice between iOS, Android, and just a website?
I really don't know the answer to that, though I expect the market share plays a part in it — if iOS was 10% or 90%, then developers surely would not have any meaningful choice.