EU to Charge Apple for Violating DMA

In addition (to obviously trying to strengthen competition), this law also strengthens the position that users bought a functioning device over which they have control. That includes hardware and software and any required libraries and runtimes.

Apple is free to include their perceived "share" in the device price or any optional cloud services, optional developer tools or optional (with competition) app store fees.

I suspect they will to have to reduce their margins siginificantly.

Edit: The cited take is even more uninformed than I initally thought. The EU is many things but people working their have been in the law making game a day or two. They 100% expected some shenanigans from Apple and friends and designed the DMA accordingly.

It is no coincidence that this enforcement actions comes almost instantly (in "regulator time") .

Like they often quote why capitalism is supposedly good and that because of this various marked oversight mechanism are bad. But fail to realize that all the good parts really only work if you have a capitalistic system in the original meaning of the word.

I.e. you have a properly competing open marked where consumers have in practice a real choice to vote with their money.

But in the real world there can be various things which can fundamentally undermine capitalism with the most obvious one being monopolies. When too many of such things come together in a too dominant way the practically eliminate the benefits capitalism has for a country at which point is as much still capitalism as a strawberry cake from which someone removed all strawberries is still a strawberry cake.

But too many people (IMHO often without realizing) push for making it illegal to keep strawberries in the strawberry cake because how would the bakery make money of the strawberry cake has to contain strawberries.

Anyway at the core all of following is in conflict with capitalism: patents, copyright, DRM (the apple case is kinda form of forcefully removing DRM like restrictions), IP law, goe fencing etc.

And especially for patents we have a lot of IRL examples how having them less can vitalize a marked.

But at the same time there are also a lot of reasons to have all of that in some form (not necessary the current form) because in the end the real world are a bit more complicated then the ideal of capitalism.