I love the supposition that a company greedy enough to break the law to prevent you knowing about someone's else's $5 cheaper price would be willing to walk away from 25% or roughly $100b of their global revenue.
They have huge problems coming now too, bigger than the DMA, as there are allegations many of the predatory practices in games are incompatible with conventional EU law.
I think Apple PR/Gruber, need to reflect on how these eurosceptic clickbaits are affecting the Apple community in Europe - both developers and consumers. Just a random example from recent months: multiple watch parties have been canceled due to a lack of interest, and it’s becoming difficult to find speakers and sell tickets for developer events.
Beneath the surface, people have shifted from being excited about the platform to feeling, ‘meh, we do what we have to do.’ Apple has never been great with Europe - from language support to missing services, we’re quite used to being a second-tier region. But the constant narrative that it’s somehow our fault that Apple wants to break the rules and get away with it is too much to swallow.
The key factor isn’t going to be the European Commission's extreme fines, it is going to be whether the Court of Justice allows such fines. The history says that they won’t.
This being a brand-new example of how the European courts are dealing with the European Commission's fines:
> The European Union General Court on Wednesday annulled a $1.7 billion antitrust penalty levied by the European Commission against Google over its AdSense advertising platform.
> The court upheld "the majority" of the European Commission's initial findings but annuled the fine, stating that the Commission"failed to take into consideration all the relevant circumstances in its assessment of the duration of the contract clauses that the Commission had deemed abusive."
This will continue to happen as long as the EC cares more about populist press releases than they care about properly doing their job. Sorry that the truth hurts.
They have huge problems coming now too, bigger than the DMA, as there are allegations many of the predatory practices in games are incompatible with conventional EU law.
https://www.beuc.eu/reports/game-over-consumers-fight-fairer...
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