Apple Appeals EU Digital Markets Act Interoperability Rules

Imagine advocating for apps being able to store your credit card numbers in a plaintext SQL database for digital goods. Idiots.

"We want a choice!". You already do. Android. Not hard to understand. You're essentially reducing choice by making iOS like Android. 🤦‍♂️

I really, really, don't like that comparison. It's not making iPhone like Android, it's making Apple better. The fact that Android already did just means Google is ahead. I don't like ecosystems, at all, and want to be able to mix-and-match as I see fit.

Some of these, I agree, are going to far, but I think there should be a lot more interoperability. I live in a mixed iPhone/Android household (myself on iPhone, and wife on a Pixel).

DMA is not a policy to support Users. There is no U of user or C of consumer ANYWHERE in that law. Only the M for market. Which means this is pure protectionism of European companies that can't compete with American companies. Again NO EU company is a "gatekeeper" according to the EU, even though some should absolutely be one.

Bytedance is a gatekeeper and it's Chinese. They aren't all American.

Either way, I don't care where they are from. If American companies want to operate in the EU, they do so under EU rules. American doesn't get to export laws and business practices.

My biggest worry right now is what America is planning on forcing Apple to do in the near future. While European Union I trust way more with their policies support for Users.

Imagine advocating for apps being able to store your credit card numbers in a plaintext SQL database for digital goods. Idiots.

Imagine thinking that that's how any of this works...

If Apple's software is that fragile and insecure, maybe it just shouldn't exist in the first place.

Please let Apple release iPhone mirroring on macOS just like it was intended. Apple’s secret sauce is their tight integration, the ecosystem.


While EU costumers are happy to now be able to use a standard charging port such as USB-C, thanks to the push of EU, sometimes I think they’re going too far. And iPhone screen mirroring is fundamentally a continuity/handoff feature (never knew the difference between them).

It's worth noting that there is absolutely nothing in EU law that blocks Apple from making screen mirroring available in the EU. Just like there was absolutely nothing that blocked them from allowing PWAs, which they were also called out for by the EU itself. It's why its competitors - despite having to adhere to the same rules - do have these features.

DMA is not a policy to support Users. There is no U of user or C of consumer ANYWHERE in that law. Only the M for market. Which means this is pure protectionism of European companies that can't compete with American companies. Again NO EU company is a "gatekeeper" according to the EU, even though some should absolutely be one.

And if you think "protecionism" isn't bad. It's actually illegal under EU law, a country isn't allowed to give market protection to a company. This would end in large fines from the EC (European Comission). But using this legislation they have reworked this "protection" into a new law.
Just like GDPR doesn't protect citizens privacy, because other legislation easily tramples it.

See, that's the difference between the EU and the US. "Market" is not just "corporate intrests". "Market" in the DMA does mean consumers. But you knew that already. Just as you know that this "protectionism" rant is also bs. The DMA is, just like every other country has, just another anti-trust law. By your warped definition of what "protectionism" is, the EU wouldn't be allowed to have any anti-trust rules, and again, you know that that's just bs.

Thank goodness I don't live in an EU country.

I'm with Apple on this one. Apple has always been about integrating hardware and software to create a cohesive environment, The Walled Garden. There's a reason this appeal to millions of users.

It's kind of like telling Chevy their engines have to work in their competitor's vehicles.

Terrible analogy. No one is telling Apple their parts need to work in other companies products. Exactly the opposite, which is why you have the freedom to buy non-Chevy tires for your Chevy. Or windshield wipers. Walk into any auto parts store for an example of how many 3rd party parts integrate with a Chevy car perfectly.