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Apple can be broken up in multiple ways. - smartphones - desktop/laptops - music and video streaming - App Store and payments with Apple Pay - chip design
by foepys 4y ago
Apple can be broken up in multiple ways.
- smartphones
- desktop/laptops
- music and video streaming
- App Store and payments with Apple Pay
- chip design
- physical stores
All of those could stand on their own.
Edit: I'm not saying that the EU can break them up but Apple is not a company with a single field where breaking it up is impossible. I misread the parent a bit.
- piaste 4y agoHow does the EU force an American company to break up? (Not a rhetorical question) Perhaps they might pull a China and require them to open a 51% EU-owned subsidiary to do business here, which would then be subject to all sort of restrictions including company size. As a EU citizen, I would absolutely love it. But I suspect that the EU is bound by many more and much more comprehensive free-trade treaties than China is, and such a draconian approach would require many of them to be renegotiated or exited outright.
- rnk 4y agoThey can tax and fine them unsustainable fees, prohibit them from being used there. Thus they can control them. If Apple found that onerous they could choose not to be in business there.
- colinmhayes 4y agoHow would the eu force apple to break up? It’s an American company. I guess they could lobby the US, but doesn’t seem close to happening.