★ The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue
https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue
The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue

The DMA allows the EC to penalize “gatekeepers” with fines that are vastly disproportionate to the amount of revenue they generate in EU member states.

Daring Fireball

@daringfireball It seems one of the most fundamental (and fundamentally unfair, in my "American" view) problems with the DMA (and maybe many EU regulations?) is that compliance is not clearly defined.

Why can't the regulatory authorities publish explicit requirements? Why must they judge after the attempt? It suggests the goal is punishment for non-compliance rather than changing the actor's behavior.

@NailClippings @daringfireball

Because the range of human activities is too broad to explicitly define in a law. Laws very rarely explicitly define the exact things people and companies can or cannot do.

That said, DMA lists plenty of explicit requirements