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> Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets Ho
by silvestrov 4y ago
> Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets
How to piss off the EU political system in one simple step.
This ruling is no surprise after such behaviour from Apple. They made their own bed.
- mpweiher 4y agoYep. "So you think our fines are too puny to make you comply?" "There fixed that for you."
- account42 4y agoFines, at least for corporations, really need to have increase exponentially without limit for repeat offenses so that violating the law can never just be shrugged off as the cost of doing business.
- mpweiher 4y ago10% of global turnover seems pretty substantial. 20% for repeat offenders. I can't imagine any company in the world that will shrug that off.
- arlcode 4y agoThat felt somewhat desperate, like Apple didn't really know how to deal with this. I wonder what their endgame was? Did they hope that users would rise up and defend apple against their government over dating apps? Did they think the government would blink first? (Why would it?) Was this an attempt to hinder similar laws in other jurisdictions? (If so, how?) Where they simply too stunned and inflexible to react quickly? It made no sense to me and I fear we will never learn?