Just yesterday came the news that Apple's Intelligence is not going to arrive promptly, in Europe, as a result of some problems with the DMA. Today, the European Commission confirmed the rumors of published in the last few weeks of the Financial Times, and announced the arrival of an investigation, the preliminary against Apple.
In the center would be some rules to the App Store, which, according to the European will to commit the Act in the Market of Digital, while preventing the developer's guide to clients freely to other alternative ways to enjoy the offerings of the content.
“Today is an important day for the application properly DMA: we have been sent to Apple's preliminary findings. The position of our prior is that Apple does not allow for a fully running,” he said Organized the European Antitrustit, Margrethe Vestager, in reference to the possibility of the direction of users to other alternatives. According to the office of the Commissioner, a directive and this is going to be “essential in order to ensure that the developers of the applications that are less dependent on stores and applications, usher, and for consumers to be aware of the offerings and the best of the best. We are also open cases against Apple in relation to the so-called commission of the technology, the basic and the rules are different to allow for the shop, and the applications of third parties, and the load side. The community of developers, and consumers are eager to provide the alternative to the App Store. We will investigate to make sure that the Apple does not undermine these efforts.”
The EU commissioner for industry, Thierry Breton, got the Apple in a post on Twitter, saying that “the Bible, otherwise it must be a sogla of the new Apple, which for a long time, it has stopped the companies from innovating, by denying the consumer the option of choice for new. Today, we take the extra steps to make sure that the AppStore and iOS are compatible with the DMA.”
On a side note, the press, and Apple, which runs the risk of a penalty equal to 10% of the turnover of its global, said: “in the last few months, we have made a number of changes to the complying with the DMA in response to feedback from the developers, and the Commission of the European union. We make sure that our design is consistent with the law, and we appreciate that more than 99% of all the developers would have to pay Apple to be the same, or less, according to the terms and conditions of the new trading situation that we have created. To all the developers that are currently operating in the european union in the App Store and have the ability to use the features that we presented, including the ability to run user applications in the web site to make purchases with a charge very competitive. As we have always done, we will continue to listen to and engage with the European Commission”.
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