Comment by StopDisinfo910
3 months ago
Blame Apple for this garbage. They have paved the way by trying to circumvent the DMA.
Hopefully the EU slaps everyone with massive fines for these obvious anticompetitive plays. Best case scenario would be an outride ban giving local companies space but I doubt this will happen given how spineless the current commission is.
Clearly for American companies to be tightening the noose like that quoting the approval of authoritarian countries, it means they’re starting to feel the fire. It’s hard to not see the obvious link with them losing against Epic here behind the usual security smoke screen.
Both Apple and Google should have been broken to pieces for their egregious anti competitive behaviour a long time ago anyway.
Do we know what was the European Commission response to Apple "complying" to the DMA by allowing sideloading with notarization and fees?
As far as I can see, the latest developments are from April 2025 when the commision fined Apple 500M€ for non-compliance due to preventing developers to advertise their app being available on a third-party store.
The distribution term imposed on developers are a separate investigation that the one leading to the 500M€ fine. Preliminary view as of April 2025 is that Apple conditions are in breach of the DMA [1]. Apple has some time to reply.
Except fines to be coming soon. That’s why Trump is threatening the EU about IT firm compliance right now.