Month: February 2024
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EU Commission confirms Apple web apps inquiry but EU users won’t get home-screen web apps back before 2030s if ever
The European Commission has confirmed reports that it sent out questionnaires to market participants regarding Apple’s decision to disable progressive web apps in the EU. This article analyzes Apple’s likely defense strategy.
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Apple critics, EU Commission will get value out of March 18 workshop only if they recognize DMA limitations
This article explains what the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act enforcers and the private parties who will complain about Apple’s EU-specific app rules have to do to get value of the event. It all starts with a sense of realism.
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Epic defends jury trial win over Google, disputes that Android-specific markets are single-brand aftermarkets
Epic Games generally has strong arguments that Judge Donato instructed the jury in accordance with controlling law and that the jury had substantial evidence before it to reach the conclusions it did. The most transcendental legal question in the case involves single-brand markets.
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7 changes to patch the EU’s Digital Markets Act and make open app markets a reality over Apple’s belligerent stance
In this article, games fray proposes a set of measures that would up the ante for Apple’s efforts to open up iOS app distribution in the EU.
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Apple’s EU app rules comply with Digital Markets Act unless judges take purposive interpretation to higher level
Apple has a resaonable argument that it complies with the EU’s Digital Markets Act in a literal sense.Only a teleological (or purposive) interpretation of the DMA poses a risk to Apple, but the legal and factual hurdles are high.
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Apple appeals certification of consumer class action over App Store cut; Epic Games opposes recovery of $73M fees
A couple of filings were made late on Friday in two App Store antitrust cases: Apple is appealing the certification of a consumer class challenging the 30% cut, and Epic Game opposes Apple’s demand for a $73M recovery of attorneys’ fees.
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Apple effectively kills numerous browser games in the EU: unprecedented slap in the face of tech regulation
The latest iOS beta version shows that Apple is prepared to flip the bird to the institutions of the Europan Union in response to an attempt to better regulate digital markets.
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TikTok loss in EU court case benefits Apple’s resistance to Digital Markets Act as EU Commission risks BILLIONS
Bytedance failed to win a court order that would have suspended the EU Commission’s designation of TikTok as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act. But the court’s reasoning shows certain limits of DMA enforcement.
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Microsoft to appeals court: Activision Blizzard was planning significant job cuts even as independent company
Context: Yesterday (February 7, 2024), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a letter with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing that a recent announcement of 1,900 job cuts at Activision Blizzard strengthened its case for an injunction. The FTC said that it would become difficult to spin off ABK in…
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Disney-Epic Games alliance has important past and current connections with Apple, Google app store fights
App store antitrust matters are not mentioned in the announcement of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, but there are important implications, some of which are not merely speculative.