For instance, the section on āneutral messagingā prohibits Apple from providing proper warnings, information, and education to its user base when linked outside the App Store. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283-epic-v-apple-contempt-order/
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A lot of people are cheering the latest court blow to Apple. Those celebratingāincludes game studios known for dark patterns and aggressive monetization targeting kidsāarenāt exactly champions of user freedom.
Apple appealed, rightfully so. Letās unpack the full picture in the thread below.
And there it is... Finally I can talk about this publicly. @euorigin will join @meuvy to form stack of EU focused services by @vaicat to help EU Talent Mobility and EU Entrepreneurship grow.
Let me explain in the thread linked here: https://bsky.app/profile/janwillens.bsky.social/post/3lm3q6htc7223
And there it is... Finally I can talk about this publicly. @euorigin.bsky.social will join @meuvy.bsky.social to form stack of EU focused services by @vaicat.bsky.social to help EU Talent Mobility and EU Entrepreneurship grow. Let me explain in the thread below! (Also, check out the quoted post). [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Title: Reconciling European Commission's Digital Fairness "Fitness Check" with something that closer resembles "common sense".
Introduction: Reconciling the Commission Staff Working Document on Consumer Law with the Mario Draghi report on European competitiveness highlights contrasting priorities and approaches, the type of contrast that could "kill" the EU (according to Macron) or revive our innovative spirit.
In summary, Spotify can increase prices more often and higher than its competition without offering the same audio quality improvement features and being able to brick consumer hardware bought from Spotify.
Spotify has a 56% marketshare in Europe and continues to grow for almost 10 years straight despite this behaviour, which shows durable market power.
And it abuses the European Commission's power, wielding it as a weapon against competitors who dare to come close.
This is called dominance.
Spotify is showing off its market power by making insane demands against Apple and the European Commission's 1.8 billion Euro gamble-fine is about the blow up with it.
This one is spicy. I'm going to make the case that Spotify is clearly making outrageous demands and that it can do so because of their durable market power and market share. Plus as a bonus we will dive into how 160.000.000 dollars of our (EU citizen's) tax money is on the line here.
Grab your snacks.
Breaking up Google is a terrible idea with horrible chain reactions of events which have a very high potential of destroying small businesses and small developer's livelihoods.
There, that is the summary of my thread. If you're pressed for time, that is what I will leave you with. But if you have some minutes to spare... allow me to show you how the DOJ considering breaking up Google is another way of saying "blowing up SMEs into oblivion".
Let's begin.
Today we are going to talk about ads, money, branding, responsibility and quotes that aged like the finest milk in history:
"I hope they (advertisers) stop. -- Don't advertise.
If someone is trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money?
Go fuck yourself. GO - FUCK - YOURSELF. Is that clear? I hope it is.
Hi Bob (Iger). I'm sure you are somewhere in the audience."
Let's deep dive into Elon Musk's Twitter lawsuit against his very own ex-customers.
