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from the article: "Apple also prevented Spotify and other companies from informing customers on their phones that they could avoid the commission – and get a better deal – simply by signing up on Spotify’s website."
what the justification? that it harms user experience? because "our platform our rules" doesn't trump "our country our rules".
Inno what?
It is 2024, not 2006, what innovations are you talking about?
Who is "you" here?
Company or People?
Because EU stands behind ppl here
I wonder why europeans are not able to vote with their wallet? Or perhaps it's sneaky politicians distracting you with this stuff so you don't get them to fix the real issues.
It's also truly a shame to read that enforcement of rules is put under the umbrella of "anti-innovation". As if innovation should be pursued by whatever means necessary, in a weird neo-Machiavellian way of "the ends justify the means".
There are rules, a case was brought to be judged based on these rules and the company infringed on them. We shouldn't let innovation trump every other aspect of society, I surely do not want to live in a place where companies can do whatever they want in name of "innovation". Look at how the US turned out, basically being ruled by corporations who defy whatever rule is placed upon them to tame the beast.
Rent-seeking on the App Store is not an innovation, it's feudalism, Apple owns the only place possible to submit an application for all non-jailbroken iOS users, with the control of digital land it enforces a 30% rent on subscriptions sold through these apps, what is the innovation here? At the same time they can offer Apple Music without charging themselves a 30% that goes to a competitor.
I'm tired of this thought-terminating cliche about innovation, companies shouldn't accrue more power than what they already have, which they gained a lot more since the 80s, and that is already unhealthy to societies.
None, they don't claim it, they just act like it.