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Apple hasn't faced a fine yet for this, so there's really no material harm to them for acting like this. And it's great theater for shareholders. I'm sure once
by notaustinpowers 3y ago
Apple hasn't faced a fine yet for this, so there's really no material harm to them for acting like this. And it's great theater for shareholders. I'm sure once we get to the point where the EU is going to begin issuing fines for DMA violations then Apple will change their position.
Microsoft was acting like this in the 90s. I think history is just repeating itself with Apple.
- ajross 3y ago> Microsoft was acting like this in the 90s. I think history is just repeating itself with Apple. So... the difference was Microsoft was winning those fights because their enemy was other products in the market. They'd tell Dell not to ship Netscape, and Dell would yank the product. They'd clone java, and websites would code to that to get IE compliance. They'd push ActiveX and bribe web properties to implement it, and they would. This wasn't fair, but it was at least in some sense "competition". (I mean, eventually MS would go on to lose control of all those levers, but over decades of timescale and generally due to market motion.) Apple here is just flailing. It's a regulatory action, not a competitor. There's no feasible path to beating or evading EU law. Surely they know that, right?
- notaustinpowers 3y agoTrue, trying to reason why Apple is acting like this is just making my head hurt lol
- JanSt 3y agoBreton asked his team to look into the Epic / Apple case with _high priority_ yesterday.