The $570 million fine imposed by the European Union on Apple, has drawn strong criticism from the White House, which has called the move a form of economic blackmail, according to Reuters.
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The fine was announced on Wednesday by the European Commission following a formal investigation into compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a major legislative step aimed at curbing domain nameance companies that have an advantageous position on the market. According to the European Commission Apple violated this law by restricting developers from informing users about alternative payment options outside of App Store and at the same time prevented the distribution of applications for iOS through competing app stores.
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In response to the move, a White House spokesman called the EU’s actions “a new form of economic blackmail,” signaling growing tensions between Europe and the United States over regulation of American technology companies. The statement said: “This new form of economic blackmail will not be tolerated by the United States. Extraterritorial regulations that deliberately target and undermine American companies, stifle innovation, and enable censorship will be seen as trade barriers and a direct threat to a free civil society.”
Apple announced that it plans to appeal the decision. The company called the EU decision “another example of unfair targeting of this company” and claims that such actions are “bad for protecting the privacy and security of our users.” However, the fines imposed represent approximately 0,1% of the company’s annual turnover, which is significantly below maximal fine of 10%, which is allowed by the DMA law.
So it's the EU's power to impose such a fine. The EU will get us into trouble with the US with what they're coming up with
You're going to screw up with your logic even when you're convinced that the law is on your side? So you don't have much self-confidence.
I don't have it, but I still live 😀
I hope so Apple He won't pay anything and won't let a pervert dictate what he represents in the EU and makes up such shit.
So far, the only one writing shit here is you. First, study something about the issue and then you'll find out that you won't learn much wisdom from the university of life.
Hey Pavlik, you could sit there with them, you're smart enough not to know what to do with him.
The EU market belongs to Apple to the most lucrative ones, so don't worry, they will pay with humility.
500m users is certainly an interesting market, but it's certainly not the most lucrative. But you're right, it will pay.
Here comes the brain trust again :))
It's not the first time. apple it violates not only EU laws, but also the laws of the specific state, so they should learn to obey the laws, it's interesting that they don't hear about other manufacturers receiving such fines, they probably all knew how to adapt, just apple is there an exception that you don't have to follow the laws? why why?
Is there a contact for those EU guys? Someone should probably write to them and tell them to stop making up nonsense and interfering in the development of companies they don't own.
I'm afraid that a person who can't even find the email addresses of members of the EU parliament probably shouldn't give people much advice :)