| > All of these things actually were already standardized in a single, predictable way, just that they were done by apple. If there is only one company, it's not a standard - it's a monopoly. > They should be forcing apple and Google as app stores to abide by a single set of guidelines They are. It's just that what Apple does simply won't fit in those guidelines. > but the implementation therein should be left to those companies. It is. The DMA doesn't tell Apple how to run their servers or what APIs to allow. It just tells everyone, including Apple, that some behaviors in the market are ok and some are not. It just so happens that Apple falls in the not-ok bin. > Google allows multiple app stores, great. Apple doesn't want to. That should also be fine. According to whom, you? The fact is that European society, as represented in the EU Parliament, EU Council, and EU Commission, determined that such behavior is NOT fine in the market. It strangles competition to Apple in the digital-services arena and effectively allows them to extract rent from the whole industry. Hence, Apple should stop what they are doing or face consequences. This is a side-effect of issuing guidelines for acceptable behavior in the digital marketplace. If you don't like the directive, go vote for some party in European elections (hey, this year) and national elections (possibly this year, depending on the country) to change it. If you're not in Europe, well, you are not affected by the directive, so you don't really get a say about it. |