Apple Acquiring SigScalr

The EU regulators commented that the future for fining Apple is bright after allowing the acquisition of assets and employees from SigScalr. Since, after the acquisition, Apple has a 100% monopoly of those assets and employees and are due to receive a hefty fine.

This is a good purchase. Now Apple can ignore all of my Feedback Assistant reports in a more streamlined manner.

Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.

Usually doesn’t apply to the EU. :)

In the EU Apple only has a monopoly over products/services that contain their trademarked names (in other regions, referred to as “products/services made by that company”. Which is why “gatekeeper” was invented… to deal with the “problem” of there being legal method in existence at the time that would allow them to punish Apple for the crime of “having made successful things that their citizens wanted to buy.”

Apple has a 100% monopoly of those assets and employees

Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.

SigScalr created the open-source observability platform SigLens, which companies can use to aggregate and analyze logs, metrics, and traces at massive scales for monitoring and debugging purposes.

Instead of contributing to the open source code Apple chose to make it proprietary.

In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published today on the European Commission's website ('https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/acquisitions').

“Certain asserts” means they are not acquiring the company . There is likely some subset ‘tool’ in set of solutions/‘tools’ that the company has .

Decent chance Apple wants to ‘fork’ some tool and are picking up developer(s) closest associated with the tool.
Or it is a tool that sigScalr was considering phasing out or walking away from , but Apple likes it .


There are a number of Apple acquires non-exclusive license entries on that EU commission link also , if take some open source code private then pragmatically about the same thing .


This is VASTLY distant from anything that would get anywhere near the monopoly/antitrust zone .