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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by Spivak on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:59AM (#41209138)
But like we all know it's a bluff so there's really no risk. If the EU regulators could successfully kick Apple out without massive backlash from their own citizens it would be a win. The vacuum Apple would leave behind would be massive and give a chance, albeit maybe a small one given Google and Samsung would pounce, for EU companies to fill.

As much as it would suck personally if the internet got partitioned by political region, China absolutely got this one right by kicking out foreign companies that don't bend the knee to let their own domestic industry flourish.

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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by create-account on Saturday August 10, 2024 @10:37AM (#41209827)
Why would the US leave Europe alone after acquiring and destroying Europe's mobile phone manufacturing business?
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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by talldayo on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:58PM (#41210735)
For starters, the US' own government has also launched an anticompetitive inquiry into Apple's behavior. It's ongoing as we speak, and by the looks of it Apple isn't behaving like a company with nothing to hide.
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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by pjmlp on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:04AM (#41214455)
This goes beyond phones, maybe this would be the opportunity as well, starting with something like the Pi, to have the European consumer electronics being based again home made hardware and OSes, like up to the early 1990's, gotta lose our dependency on US computer brands, specially if the government turns yet again.
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