Apple has ‘very serious’ issues under EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act – Vestager
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age (no joke, that’s her real title)
Apple has numerous “very serious” issues under the European Union’s sweeping Digital Markets Act, the bloc’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager told CNBC on Tuesday. Vestager said the conclusions of the probe will be revealed “hopefully soon.”
In March, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, opened a probe into Apple, Alphabet, and Meta under the sweeping Digital Markets Act tech legislation that became applicable this year.
The investigation featured several concerns about Apple, including whether the tech giant is blocking businesses from telling their users about cheaper options for products or about subscriptions outside of the App Store.
“We have a number of Apple issues; I find them very serious. I was very surprised that we would have such suspicions of Apple being non-compliant,” Vestager told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro. ″[Apple] are very important because a lot of good business happens through the App Store, happens through payment mechanisms, so of course, even though you know I can say this is not what was expected of such a company, of course we will enforce exactly with the same top priority as with any other business.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Vestager is a painfully stupid ditz.
The EC’s Vestager fronts for a group of whiners who want to abuse Apple’s App Store to advertise lower prices elsewhere for free. Does some quasi-governmental confederation led by a mentally deficient moron force Target to allow Walmart to advertise lower prices inside Target stores for free? No, of course not, because it makes zero sense.
The European Union arose because the Europeans couldn’t compete on their own with the rest of the world, so they each lined up to surrender their national sovereignty, unique cultures, and dignity for an undemocratic, opaque, wasteful, bloated, bureaucratic quasi-governmental blob – and, even with the EU’s thumbs all over the scale, they still can’t compete. – MacDailyNews, March 4, 2024
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