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🔥 WTF? Thread: Apple’s new EU Store Services tiers — designed to look fair, but actually punish both developers and consumers. developer.apple.com/help/app-store… Let’s break it down. 👇

Apple is dominating the market because it has created a monopoly that insulates itself from competitors and makes it hard for consumers to leave — not because it is competing on the merits. These actions are anticompetitive and illegal. oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation You guys are shilling for Apple’s anticompetitive practices, which have been found unlawful in both the US and EU. The intro reads as if you have a broad concern about EU trade practices, then you just go into the ways EU, like America, is making Apple play fairly.

Maybe Apple would stop getting sued if they stopped breaking the law. Until they fix their anti-competitive practices and censorship abroad, we hope these suits continue and are successful.

Epic’s right to compete with Apple in payments and app stores, and Epic’s right to speak freely on commercial matters, has been under attack by Apple for 5 years now. Only one jurisdiction has come to the defense of our competition and speech: the European Union.

Apple and Google shilling and lobbying on the topic are incessant. They pay dozens of organizations to spread false claims about EU policy and the DMA. They appear to have even co-opted someone in the USTR to plant false stories in the media on their behalf. Don’t be fooled.

ScottSpadea An analogy for Apple’s payment policies would be if Ford prevented you from refueling your Ford car at competing gas stations, and instead forced you to use its gas stations and added an extra 30% junk fee to your bill.

AEI Tech Policy NetChoice Shane Tews This is Big Tech monopoly funded propaganda. In Europe, the Digital Markets Act has enabled multiple competing app stores to launch on iOS, and there have been ZERO incidents of malware. The main barrier to real consumer choice has been Apple and Google malicious compliance.

AEI Tech Policy NetChoice Shane Tews In reality, Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store have a poorer record of malware than any of the leading PC stores like Epic Games Store and Steam. New market entrants would compete by offering BETTER security than Apple.

TheLazyIndianTechie 🕹️ The 41st Precinct Epic Games hasn’t lobbied or opined on the law. I guess our logo is on the picture above because we’re a member of various trade organizations and some of them have lobbied or opined against the proposal.

What a complete load of shit! All Apple has to do to comply with the DMA is to change a few policies like they did in the United States when Judge YGR challenged their lies and non-compliance.

More bullshit. All Apple had to do to comply with the DMA was change a few policies like they did when Judge YGR called them out for non-compliance in the United States. Don’t believe these garbage articles written by people who work for companies that hide the names of the

Crazy thought. Should Canada join the EU? One obvious upside would be the ability for Canadians to live and work freely in the EU and vice versa for EU citizens.

Caught up on some great action movies during our break. Saw Superman, F1 and Thunderbolts. They were all great but Superman stood out as my favorite.

Malicious compliance in action. Say you technically comply but put up roadblocks to make it economically unviable for anyone to get the actual benefit the law is meant to provide. Doing it with app stores and payments too.

So wait, where’s the scary warning you’re about to leave the app to buy sometime from an unknown source on the internet?

Definitely! Looking forward to it!!

I liked it a lot! All these movies (Superman, F1, Thunderbolts) were great.

Very good. But I thought Superman was even better.

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