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Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe (www.zdnet.com)

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Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe::As its walled garden crumbles, Apple grudgingly allows EU users to sideload applications. Will regulators take stiffer action, and what about the US?

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Surely Apple knows the EU won't look kindly on this at all?

They know this won't work long term. This is just a last-ditch attempt to keep an effective status quo for another year or so while the EU comes up with a response. Another year, possibly more, of fleecing their customers/developers.

Scummy behaviour. But what else would you expect from a massive tax-dodging multinational?

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure this serves two purposes: to not leave money on the table (as terrible as that sounds, the non-EU market is still milkable for them), and to prepare investor sentiment for the inevitable loss of revenue in a year or so.