The European Union is preparing to warn Apple to open up its iPhone’s operating system to competing technologies. Under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, Apple faces the risk of substantial fines if it fails to comply with the new rules requiring operating systems to be fully interoperable with other technologies, Bloomberg News reports citing “people familiar with the matter who spoke under condition of anonymity.”
Samuel Stolton for Bloomberg News:
While the announcement is a step shy of being a formal investigation, the EU aims to compel Apple to re-engineer its services to allow rival companies to access the iPhone’s operating system. One of the aims of the DMA is to ensure that other developers can gain access to key iPhone features, such as its Siri voice commands and its payments chip.
The EU may later decide to launch a formal probe if Apple doesn’t step into line with the DMA, which could eventually lead to hefty fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover.
MacDailyNews Take: The single biggest reason why the EU doesn’t innovate because of onerous, stifling European Union red tape.
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How much longer with Apple allow the EU to bully them around? Short of the change over to USB C that’s the only thing that made sense.
Would love to hear that Apple is no longer selling devices in the EU until rhey can pull their soothers out of their mouths and act like adults.
Not giving the EU a pass., but I doubt the intent is to share proprietary source code. Rather to allow 3rd party Apps the same API access as Apple to system components like the NFC chip, Neural processor, camera, sensors, etc. I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually have even the AI made into another modular system component that can be switched by the user.
I 100% agree that the EU should leave Apple and most of the tech companies alone since they aren’t monopolies. You can still purchase a variety of devices, running a variety of OS’s from a huge amount of brands. The classic monopoly is Google with search and YouTube. My 2 questions for those that have been kind enough to leave a comment and other’s that will later are this. First, do you support Elon Musk’s fight against censorship in the EU and Brazil (which our government is funding and helping to implement through various CIA and State Department cutout’s). Lastly, do you support Net Neutrality here in the US and if you do why?