> Anton: Overly powerful, rent-seeking gatekeepers seem like a problem. > de With: I love that I can’t tell if you are talking about the EU or Apple in this ca

> Anton: Overly powerful, rent-seeking gatekeepers seem like a problem. > de With: I love that I can’t tell if you are talking about the EU or Apple in this case. > The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats. Both cut from the same cloth of rent-seeking gatekeepers.