Regulation and antitrust trials are pulling down the walls.

Regulation and antitrust trials are pulling down the walls.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    So it’s been doing the logical thing for years, which is finding other ways to make money, and it’s been largely successful, particularly as it added the App Store and services like Apple Music.

    And smaller developers struggled to find a business model that worked between Apple’s commission fees and strict guidelines over how and when it could charge customers for their product.

    Microsoft recognized that Java could make porting software from Windows to other systems easier, so it sabotaged Sun’s efforts and instructed its allies not to aid the company.

    Apple responded to the pressure by promising to support RCS on the iPhone — a standard that updates the relatively ancient SMS/MMS protocol and includes more iMessage-like features.

    The other shoe fell last month when the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market.

    But that’s unlikely to be the end of it — app developers aren’t happy with the company’s “malicious compliance” to new rules under the DMA, and European regulators are investigating Apple’s response.

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    • willyaAEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      You read the article or just the headline and don’t know what they mean by “walled garden”?

        • willyaAEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m tired of all the anti apple crap Lemmy wide but this post had nothing to do with that imo.