No they're not. They aren't being asked to provide anything for free. They are being forced to open their platform. They can still charge whatever they want in their App Store. They can still charge developer fees and licenses for developers whether those developers publish in the Apple App Store or a third party app store. This is no different from how things work on every other computing platform...macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, etc.
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Apple's App Store, Safari, and iOS Officially Designated 'Gatekeepers' in EU
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It is not. Competition is about winning. Being the last standing. Regulation is the antithesis of it. Which is why capitalists rail against it. This isn’t about competition either, it’s exactly what I described. A way for the biggest to cut overhead and make more profit. While the littlest will bear the burden of higher costs, and squeezed out.
Can you guys type slower? I can’t read as fast while I’m eating popcorn 🤭
I love how Americans are bashing the EU for being "elitist", without knowing anything about the union at all. It's getting boring.
No, it's just real democracy working, baby!
No, it's just real democracy working, baby!
I know. I’ve got email alerts on. It’s driving the dog nuts
Is that an excuse to let big companies demolish your rights? Sounds anti-democracy to my ears.
Your comments prove my point. Hello Fresh and Spotify? And Clash of Clans? Are you ******* kidding me?
So you’re ignoring ARM because that’s inconvenient?
First of all, its UK. Not EU
Second, the total market cap is going to be well below $10 billion. Trying to put that on the same table as the top 50 US tech companies is a joke
Funny I forgot all about that but you’re right!And here in the States, they let employees checkout hardcovers they resold...Never quite got that one
It was created when the UK was EU.
So what you’re actually saying is it’s not about innovation, it’s about money? And in the US a company that won’t allow the customer to put what they like on their kit so that the company can make more money is classed as a freedom?
“Demolish your rights”. Give me a break. Think back of the last 10 years and all the innovations these “bad technology companies” brought to market
Go try living in communist Russia
Lol. First off, its UK. Second, it controls nothing. Qualcomm is better positioned in the microprocessor space than ARM
Third, it did, per its S1 IPO filing, less than $3 billion in ANNUAL revenues. Less than $3 billion!!! Are you freaking kidding me?!
Try harder
Advertising-funded tech companies are overvalued and overpriced. All of them. No exceptions.
It's embarrassing what is considered a high-value tech company here. Apple is an exception.
Who says they are “bad” companies? They are just being asked to open the platform. To employ a badly described analogy used earlier, it’s like having a house built then being forced to buy all your electricity from the builder.
I'm sure we could find industries where the Europeans are more successful, financially-speaking. Financial success isn't the only metric that matters. Without ARM, there would be no Apple Silicone.
Reducing everything to money and "winning" is why the world is falling apart, why we're headed for climate collapse in the next decades, and why kids today will have a significantly worse quality of life than their parents.
Spotify is the most popular music streaming service on the planet. So no I'm not ******* kidding you. People don't realize how much of their software was made by European companies, they only want to focus on the Big Tech Big Five.
It was founded in 1984. Forty years ago
My comment was “When was the last time a tech company of any substance came from there?”
The EU does not require developers to release apps on the App Store. So it is possible for apps that someone uses regularly today to require use of a 3rd party app store in the future.
So not a single EU company qualified as a gatekeeper? Weird coincidence.
Google has a presence in the EU and has fallen foul of the Commission numerous times plus EU companies generally understand the competition laws
I’m assuming that makes sense to you. Why would I not use the existing grid and power plants plus buy my electricity from a 3rd party company who buys in bulk from the producer?