Steve Troughton-Smith"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 noncompliant”
"This is not what we expected of such a company”
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112640420132181098
Paraphrased: we're not just mad, but we're also disappointed 😛
Me too, EU. Me too.
From later in the interview, specifically re questions on Apple’s Core Technology Fee:
“We have a toolbox of fines, of doubling fines, of potential breakup of companies”
"We have a very strong toolbox to ‘punish’”
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"I expected [noncompliance] cases… I'm a bit surprised we have so many cases, so soon, and with more in the pipeline”
John Gruber@stroughtonsmith Good luck to the EU breaking up a US company.
Charlie Fish@gruber @stroughtonsmith It’s crazy how much the EU is overstepping here. The EU is not the world police.
Let’s also not forget how the EU completely ruined the internet with those cookie request pop-ups all over the web…
Johannes ヨハネス@fishcharlie @gruber @stroughtonsmith The EU is neither overstepping nor is it acting like the world police (unlike some other countries). The laws it passes apply in EU countries only.
Also, the EU never forced anyone to use cookie pop-ups. That’s the industry’s reaction to the GDPR regulations, trying to make users accept their horrendous data collection practices.
@johjakob @gruber @stroughtonsmith “The laws it passes apply in EU countries only”
Yet their fines are based on worldwide revenue…
Michael@fishcharlie @johjakob @gruber @stroughtonsmith
Why people hung up on that point. Would it better for you, if the law would say „up to 100 billions in fines“
Each regulator can charge what ever they want.
@el_micha @fishcharlie @gruber @stroughtonsmith I agree. And still, Apple could just comply with the law to avoid fines at all.