Comment on Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover.
“Can”? So…is this confirmation? They’re being fined, right?
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
From another article it said that they have 12 months to fix their violation. If they don’t comply by then the EU can issue the fine.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
IMO 12 mo is too much. They will wait till tge dead line to public the “fix.”
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yeah, they will, but I think for this to work and be respected, they need to give companies this period, because it actually could take alot of time to change.
In this case, not so much, but it could be in the future, and the rules are the same regardless.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I would say the opposite is true. Apple knows exactly what the EU wants and is doing everything within their power to maliciously comply. Giving them 12 months is nothing but a free pass to exploit consumers for another year. Then they’ll continue doing it because the EU has proven that they won’t actually do anything about it.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 3 months ago
The intent is to allow companies time to implement the change. But if you’ll pardon my cynicism, in practice, what ends up happening is companies just use it as a tactic to delay the implementation and continue recording the revenue.
At the very least they should forfeit the revenue that they earn during the period for this. I’m not sure exactly how the fines work and whether they take this into account, but I doubt Apple is seriously going to use the 12-month period to actually come clean and change their ways. I think they’ll just use it as more time to come up with some new bullshit form of non-compliance.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s 90% of a year’s revenue they could be missing out if they fixed it now, yeah