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.
@gruber the part that's in the US can stay in the US, but there are some big parts that live in the EU — like the iTunes Store, and Apple's consumer apps. That makes the App Store infrastructure itself a big, juicy EU-based target that would make actual sense to go after, since that's the part of Apple that’s blatantly breaking the laws anyway
@stroughtonsmith What’s your take on the incoming EC regime after the recent elections? Less aggressive, more pro-business? Or no change?
Christof Stadler@gruber @stroughtonsmith Don’t ask. This political trend will cause much worse issues than anti-business legislation.
@didole @stroughtonsmith What I do understand, from my side of the pond, is that the electoral wave was driven by anti-immigration sentiment. But I don't know how that translates regarding business policy.
Alfonso Betancort@gruber @didole @stroughtonsmith Wishful thinking non the less. FANG will still be on the hook for anticompetitive practices.