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Interested in learning more, do you have links to the sources?
It's joke :) It was impossible to give it a serious reply, so...
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Apple has its act together. Those, who are not Apple, do not in comparison. They are Big Mad that Apple does. You don't understand the term "rent seeking". Because in this case, it's Apple's competitors that are rent seeking by utilizing the force of the government to make Apple give competitors access to its private but non-monopolistic ecosystem. I think that Apple should call that bluff and leave the EU. Which in…
> All hollow talk. It will lose all of its aggression the moment that Apple leaves the EU, and EU citizens are left with the remaining options. People in Europe (and everywhere else that isn't the US) are already using these "remaining options" more than they use Apple products by a massive margin. Apple products are not nearly as popular in Europe as they are in the US because more people realize that the price tag…
Affording it is another discussion.
If Apple weren't popular, then its payment control within its own system wouldn't matter.
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Apple has its act together. Those, who are not Apple, do not in comparison. They are Big Mad that Apple does. You don't understand the term "rent seeking". Because in this case, it's Apple's competitors that are rent seeking by utilizing the force of the government to make Apple give competitors access to its private but non-monopolistic ecosystem. I think that Apple should call that bluff and leave the EU. Which in…
Dude the force of government is us, democratically voting, in a free society. Either respect our law, or don't do business here.
I agree that they shouldn't do business in the EU.
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Dude the force of government is us, democratically voting, in a free society. Either respect our law, or don't do business here.
Amen. This American hatred for the government is very tiresome.
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In a hypothetical world where it threatens $1T of revenue.
The app store monopoly is being threatened everywhere that isn't America.