Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by Spivak on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:32PM (#40781793)

I think it's funny people argue this when Google already does extract a massive pound of flesh from web purchases and uses Chrome to push "the web" where they control the market.

I have to pay the Apple tax to reach my customers where they are, iOS.

I have to pay the Google tax to reach my customers where they are, the web dominated by Doubleclick and Google search.

Do you care that a tech company is extracting huge sums from digital markets or do you just care how? Does it make a lick of difference that with ad spend it feels like you're buying something or when you put ads on your site you never see the money they took off the top?

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by nl on Monday June 24, 2024 @07:48PM (#40782502)

> Do you care that a tech company is extracting huge sums from digital markets or do you just care how?

Everyone should care how! The how is the important part.

If there are alternative ways to access something then people are free to compete of product. That's a huge difference because competition is generally consumer friendly.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by tines on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:36PM (#40781826)

> massive pound of flesh

Technically, all pounds of flesh are the same mass :)

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by noworriesnate on Monday June 24, 2024 @07:07PM (#40782112)

Not in an interplanetary society. If you're on Europa, your entire body weighs approximately one pound.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by tines on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:01AM (#40788758)

In modern times, the pound is defined in terms of kilograms, so it's a unit of mass.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by Spivak on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:43PM (#40781886)

Love that, I fully expect "pound of flesh" to soon have an entry in the dictionary for "an unspecified amount of flesh" to annoy language prescriptivists.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by marcus_holmes on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:00PM (#40783083)

And the EU should look into Google's unfair practices from its domination of web search and ads. I suspect it will.

If Google starting charging site owners 30% of their revenues to index their website on Google Search, and there was no possible alternative, the EU would probably be looking at them pretty harshly too.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by WA on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:54PM (#40790782)

I can send you a link to my website, no Google required.

I can send you my Android app, no Google required.

I can’t send you my iOS app without relying on Apple.

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