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I don't charge a fee to sit at my dining room table and eat the food I cook. But that doesn't mean anyone can come sit at my table and eat my food. Nobody rea

• gnfargbl 3y ago
  In this case you only allow people to sit at your table who have bought a $1000 device from you, and you are also claiming that the food is free.
  • Spivak 3y ago
    Yes, and in this case the food is still free. Buy one get one doesn't make the second one not free. You bought access to the table and we provide free food to entice you into the purchase, but we're allowed to revoke the food at any time because you're not paying for it. It's like how mobile carriers will give you access to Netflix/HBO Max for free while you use them.
• sigmar 3y ago
  That's a great reason why your dinner table is not covered by the Digital Markets Act. But here they're trying to argue the law shouldn't apply because Apple isn't getting money from iMessage, when it's clearly been part of their strategy for selling more iPhones for a long time[1][2]. [1] https://bgr.com/tech/apple-had-a-good-reason-to-bring-imessage-to-android/ https://bgr.com/tech/apple-had-a-good-reason-to-bring-imessa... [2] https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-biden-outlines-where-the-chips-act-money-is-going-111512550.html?guccounter=1 https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-biden-outlines-wh...
• seabass-labrax 3y ago
  The DMA defines a 'gatekeeper service' as one that has more than 45 million European users. Thus, this would be more like you've laid a table for 45 million Europeans and invited them to eat your food on condition that they don't eat any other food apart from yours. I think you'd get a fair amount of scrutiny from EU officials if you did that!