The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services available outside of the app (‘anti-steering provisions’). This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.

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    8 months ago

    At lest they’re consistant for me and don’t change their minds to much over the years.

    But they do. Say, they were pretty supportive of people storing actual files locally and opposed to subscription models. Now it’s different.

    And then they were kinda supportive of FOSS (loud about MacOSX being a Unix, forking KHTML). That changed.

    And they of course like to claim they don’t spy on you, but they just spy as much as they need.

    They are now forced to make changes because government lobbying against them what I’d say is more evil than everything on this planet.

    They also benefit quite a lot from governments supporting their claims about rounded corners.

    Well I got what I paid for and I wish all people get that feeling and stop forcing other people to use something because they think it’s better to do it their way. I want it my way - like Frank Sinatra once said.

    OK.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, well nobody’s perfect, as long as they don’t waste my time and I don’t see ads based on what I wrote in my messages I can use them. I don’t have time to install custom OS everytime my android phone breaks or compile my own chromium because every chromium based browser spies on me more or less. It’s all about sacrifice money or time. If open source software will stop wasting people time and start automating stuff people will switch and they will switch in no time. Like look yahoo->google or myspace->facebook. 2-3 years those companies can be gone or mostly rely on corporate - like they’re seeing it and facebook and google is trying to switch to corporate customers as fast as they can because they know they can’t keep up on consumer market, they’re mostly done here. Regular people don’t care about rounded shapes or where their files are, they want get shit done so they don’t spent so much time on it. If someone creates gui that enables them to do it and have open source product begind the scenes there is no point to not to change the story. But for now I don’t see it.