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Possibly. But if the flagrant violations continued, then the arrests would start happening, eventually. (not immediately though, obviously) Apple better hope
by stale2002 5y ago
Possibly. But if the flagrant violations continued, then the arrests would start happening, eventually. (not immediately though, obviously)
Apple better hope it has no business at all in that country. Or possibly even the EU, actually, if there are treaties/EU laws that allow cross country enforcement.
- arlcode 5y agoTreaties are not even needed. They pull the same stunts in all countries and courts in a neighbouring legislation (e.g. Germany / France) could very likely impose similar fines. The Dutch are just the first. There are several EU wide directives in the cooker which aim to address such problems (DMA and DSA). Apple probably sees the writing on the wall and tries to extract as much money while they can