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> I guess the EU will fine Apple for such behavior. The question is how soon this will happen

Too late, I'm afraid. Apple has pulled a really smart trick against the tons of paper written by EU commissioners.

Really smart tricks can buy you a few years, but in the end either you'll get sued for not complying with the intention of the law or the law gets changed to kill your trick.

The legal system doesn't like tricks, a "yes but I did X in a really clever way so it's not X" defence doesn't usually work.

I think you aren't aware that EU courts judge on intent, not letter of the law.

I did not mean to say that Apple will get away with this, it's just that I don't expect the EU to be exactly fast in its response. As the FA says, it will take its sweet time and by then Apple will have reinforced their dominant position. Of course Apple and their legal teams already know that.

Well that happened really fast

https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6...

What? It's paywalled.

Sorry! https://archive.is/vbPfD

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