EU asks for views on plan to force Apple to open up iOS
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In general I think the EU has quite mixed results. Some things they absolutely did get right, but others were complete failures.
... I mean, it's essentially antitrust. The US is also doing this to some extent (for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2024) ).
> Compared to politics in general, this is a very niche topic.
Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
There have been very significant changes to legislation, which forced Apple to change their practices. This isn't an issue where one company over reached and was forced to change their behavior. This is a long running process by the EU.
>Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
Currently, the US is addressing this via the US v Apple, US v Google etc cases (applying existing law and precedent to a novel situation), while the EU is addressing it via the DMA and DSA (new laws intended for this sort of situation). To some extent this is just a difference between common law and civil law practices (strictly speaking the ECJ isn't civil law, it's its own thing), though the US does lean more heavily on litigation vs legislation than even other common law countries.