Alex Russell

It's hard to overstate the scale of the UK CMA's planned capitulation to Apple.

Recall that Cupertino serially misled the regulator, used legal wrangling to delay, and stood up fake "developer" groups to astroturf on both sides of the pond. Now, with Parliament granting new powers to regulate, and a clear agenda *from their own groundbreaking reports*, the CMA proposes to roll over?!

A dereliction that undermines UK tech competitiveness:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/our-submission-to-the-cma-on-apples-ios-interoperability-commitments/

/cc @owa @pluralistic

Our Submission to the CMA on Apple’s iOS Interoperability Commitments - Open Web Advocacy

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Show threadAlex Russell6d ago

@owa @pluralistic What's being proposed would sound entirely reasonable against a radically different set of underlying facts.

But we don't live in a world where Apple can be trusted. They've spun so many half-truths, lawyered reality into fiction so aggressively, and worked to duck compliance so hard that we can't help but notice. All to defend the App Store's rentier model, suppressing indigenous tech.

The CMA's credulity is not on the up-and-up:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

Naked Power

Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.

Alex Russell