2025-11-08 10:40:00
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Analyse: Verbraucher haben mit dem Digital Markets Act größere Auswahl
A book excerpt details Spotify's decade-long push against Apple's App Store commissions and steering rules, including pushing the EU to pass new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/spotify-apple-dig
“Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users!” — via FSFE
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html
A book excerpt details Spotify's decade-long push against Apple's App Store commissions and steering rules, including pushing the EU to pass new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/spotify-apple-dig
There is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…
Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
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Apple verlangt das Ende des Digital Markets Act. Kern der Beschwerde: Andere App-Stores machen das iPhone „unsicherer“ – von Malware bis Pornografie. Dass Apple jahrelang Milliarden an seiner Kontrolle verdient hat, bleibt unerwähnt. - #ManagerMagazin | Wettbewerb ist wohl vor allem dann gefährlich, wenn er #Apple
Apple: Digitalgesetz DMA der EU gehört abgeschafft
Der Digital Markets Act zwingt Apple unter anderem, iPhone und iPad zu öffnen – und reguliert den Konzern bis ins Detail. Das will Apple nicht länger hinnehmen.
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