Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe::As its walled garden crumbles, Apple grudgingly allows EU users to sideload applications. Will regulators take stiffer action, and what about the US?
Surely Apple knows the EU won’t look kindly on this at all?
They know this won’t work long term. This is just a last-ditch attempt to keep an effective status quo for another year or so while the EU comes up with a response.
Scummy behaviour. But what else would you expect from a massive tax-dodging multinational?
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think many of us anticipated Apple’s malicious compliance. Now we see if the EU really will hold them to account. I’m tentatively optimistic but I admit I’ll be very disappointed if Apple wins this. It will cement their position of power globally as untouchable, and that’s a terrible outcome for the whole world. I am very disappointed that the EU permitted Apple to declare iOS as distinct from all other mobile operating systems. They even permitted them to exclude iPadOS as a Core Platform Service. Just that decision alone now excludes all Apple TVs, iPads, the Vision, and Watch. I hope that decision is also revisited.