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   Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:28:33 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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   The path that Apple is currently on, should nothing of consequence change, leads directly to the E.C. forcing Apple to split the App Store (in Europe) off into a separate company, alongside a $80+B fine and heavily regulatory scrutiny. Let's not be surprised if that's where Apple is in 5 years time

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:28:34 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

     “Should [the EC] suspect an infringement of the DMA, it can open proceedings to investigate the potential breach. […] can impose fines of up to 10% of the company's total worldwide turnover, […] 20% in case of repeated infringement. Moreover, in case of systematic infringements, […] additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it or banning the gatekeeper from acquisitions of additional services related to the systemic non-compliance.”

     https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1342

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.