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Because the fine is exactly about giving people a more fair chance to vote with their wallets. This is from the Yahoo article: "The EU competition watchdog sa
by tiborsaas 1y ago
Because the fine is exactly about giving people a more fair chance to vote with their wallets.
This is from the Yahoo article:
"The EU competition watchdog said Apple must remove technical and commercial restrictions that prevent app developers from steering users to cheaper deals outside the App Store."
- zpeti 1y agoYou can buy an android or huawei phone. Just because the ecosystem you like to use doesn't have certain features doesn't make it a monopoly.
- boxed 1y agoSwitching from one duopoly to another isn't choice.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 1y agoYou can leave the market if you dont like the rules of the market.
- iwontberude 1y agoConsumers should have greater and greater access to markets with more favorable conditions. It’s not acceptable to have consumer hostile markets in many respects e.g. healthcare. It would behoove us as consumers to demand access to markets as mundane as cellular phones. Accepting market manipulation by oligopolistic companies to reduce choice and walking away from phone ownership altogether seems counter productive for everyone.
- dns_snek 1y agoSetting aside that this is looking at the wrong side of the market like often happens in these discussions, what do you as a consumer do when Android or Huawei do something else that's a deal breaker for you?
- robertlagrant 1y agoStop using them. What do you do if every car manufacturer does something that's a "deal breaker"? Don't make a deal with them by not buying a car.
- dns_snek 1y ago> What do you do if every car manufacturer does something that's a "deal breaker" Sane societies recognize the problem and regulate it out of existence.
- ajmurmann 1y agoPreference is subjective. I hate touch screens in cars that so anything but provide a screen for my phone, others love them. Should we ban touch screen controls because of my preference? I like to have a curated app store for my phone and not have a free-for-all with multiple stores of varying quality where I need to set up a new store just to use a popular app. So I can buy an iphone and people who have a different preference can buy an Android phone. If consumers actually cared that much they'd just avoid iOS. It's the magic of the market. Let's have consumers put their money where their mouth is! Stated preference and revealed preference often differ for a reason.
- bootsmann 1y agoYour cars touchscreen is not a marketplace. The M in DMA is for markets, which is what the regulation targets. Now if your car manufacturer sold the car and someone else sold the touchscreen then you could talk about this but as it stands its a false equivalence. Apple has a market within iOS over which it can arbitrarily enforce anti-competitive rules, the EU regulates this type of behaviour.
- ajmurmann 1y agoYes, my point is that this regulation shouldn't exist in the first place. Don't like the iPhone, don't buy the iPhone!
- sussmannbaka 1y agoOr I can buy an iPhone and Apple doesn’t break the law :)
- libertine 1y agoApple can also exit the EU market if they don't want to comply with the law. Just because the regulation doesn't suit its business model doesn't make it mandatory to be present in a given market.