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Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. In the EU, in the US, now in Bra

by benoau 1y ago

Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. In the EU, in the US, now in Brazil too. What's next is the EU fines them harder and faster than ever if they continue breaking the law in about 30 - 40 days, Brazil too in about 90 days, while the criminal contempt referrals hopefully leads to charges and at least one jailed executive, and the developers suing for restitution for unwarranted fees since the injunction prohibited the above behavior prevail, and the consumers suing for restitution in the US and UK prevail, because Apple broke the law to get and maximize those fees yet testified they do nothing for them. And the DOJ antitrust later this year will feast on this.

bzzzt 1y ago
> Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. If those guidelines were always clearly illegal, why has it taken decades to take Apple to court? I don't think they should be legal, but there are of a lot of other questionable licensing conditions that seem to be legal too so why all the focus on Apple? You have to be very naive to believe it's all about the law and there's nothing like some political power grab going on.
- benoau 1y ago
  It’s taken six years since the EU investigated, leading to the DMA which took time to write then had a lengthy lead-in before it came into effect and the 1.8 billion anti-steering fine was incurred. Compliance is still “pending”, with contrived fees and scare walls and hardware restrictions against the EU’s wishes. And in that time there was the 2020 congressional investigation in the US and failed attempt at similar laws. Later this year the DOJ antitrust stemming from this investigation will finally commence. In 2021 the steering terms were ruled illegal in the US and it took three years to bounce back from the Supreme Court then another year for Apple’s noncompliance contempt to be measured. Part of their noncompliance has been dragging things out to the extent the judge recently made sure their ruling applied immediately, and delivered it before Apple even finished debating which amongst 10,000s of pages of evidence documents to provide or suppress. In that time the EU and DOJ have gone after Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft extensively too.

by benoau 1y ago

bzzzt 1y ago

> Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. If those guidelines were always clearly illegal, why has it taken decades to take Apple to court? I don't think they should be legal, but there are of a lot of other questionable licensing conditions that seem to be legal too so why all the focus on Apple? You have to be very naive to believe it's all about the law and there's nothing like some political power grab going on.

benoau 1y ago
It’s taken six years since the EU investigated, leading to the DMA which took time to write then had a lengthy lead-in before it came into effect and the 1.8 billion anti-steering fine was incurred. Compliance is still “pending”, with contrived fees and scare walls and hardware restrictions against the EU’s wishes. And in that time there was the 2020 congressional investigation in the US and failed attempt at similar laws. Later this year the DOJ antitrust stemming from this investigation will finally commence. In 2021 the steering terms were ruled illegal in the US and it took three years to bounce back from the Supreme Court then another year for Apple’s noncompliance contempt to be measured. Part of their noncompliance has been dragging things out to the extent the judge recently made sure their ruling applied immediately, and delivered it before Apple even finished debating which amongst 10,000s of pages of evidence documents to provide or suppress. In that time the EU and DOJ have gone after Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft extensively too.