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EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores (appleinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores::The European Union's Margrethe Vestager has met with leaders of US Big Tech firms to discuss their operations in the EU, and with Apple's Tim Cook concentrated on the App Store and Apple Music.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The EU is literally the only major entity actually trying at this point. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Actually a bunch of other countries are considering the same thing. Including the USA.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Yea, but they only copy EU, which does the hard work. So I bet nobody would do anything, if EU wouldn’t.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

The Brussels effect is the process of unilateral regulatory globalisation caused by the European Union de facto (but not necessarily de jure) externalising its laws outside its borders through market mechanisms. Through the Brussels effect, regulated entities, especially corporations, end up complying with EU laws even outside the EU for a variety of reasons.

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