Category: Digital Markets Regulation
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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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Meta CEO Zuckerberg confirms Apple’s rules in response to EU DMA discourage creation of alternative iOS app stores
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirms what others have said: Apple’s new EU rules generally don’t create an opportunity for alternative app stores.
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Microsoft criticizes Apple’s new EU rules: what this means for Xbox app store, xCloud iOS app, UK CMA investigation
Microsoft Xbox president Sarah Bond called on Apple to be constructive and shared a much more aggressive statement on Apple’s new EU app rules by Spotify. It’s important to distinguish between the cloud gaming issue, which is a worldwide rlue change and where the UK CMA won’t let Apple off the hook too easily.
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Explaining the disproportionate impact of Apple’s 50-cent fee in response to the EU Digital Markets Act
Apple’s fee of 50 eurocents (US$0.54) per user per year if developers wish to distribute via alternative app stores has an effect that is way bigger than the seemingly small number suggests.
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Apple’s FRAND-centric litigation strategy against the EU’s DMA protects its monopoly rents for years
Based on further analysis, games fray is now in a position to explain Apple’s litigation strategy with a view to foreseeable DMA enforcement efforts by the European Commission and/or private parties. To enable effective competition, it will be inevitable to determine so-called FRAND rates.
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No sideloading, no viable payment alternatives, no truly competitive app stores: Apple’s new EU rules render Digital Markets Act pointless
Contary to widespread misbelieve and misreporting, Apple is not really opening up app distribution in the EU. Plus ça change… The simplest example of misinformation: the truth is that sideloading isn’t allowed.