I really don’t understand why it’s taking so long to recognise Apple/Google as a monopoly.

I develop internal apps for small companies. Apple still forces each update - to an unlisted app - to go through a review process.

Google on the other hand have just told me they need to collect my address, phone number, and ID documents next year or they will delete my developer account.

I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops, wait weeks for reviews, and have my personal data collected & sold, because I distribute private software to people who use one of the two vendors that make up 99.99% of the market.

“Ohh it’s not a monopoly because your clients could just carry around a lenovo running linux instead of a mobile phone”. How is this argument still passing the bar?

I hope we see this act cut billions out of these platform rent seekers bottom lines

Good. Where’s the filing though to see the reasoning?

IMHO Apple will thank EU for this because Digital Markets Act will save Apple from itself.

I'm a huge Apple fanboy and I'm happy with the walled garden HOWEVER Apple begun engaging in rent seeking and missing out on innovation and I really, really want Apple to succeed because they are the tech company that cares about user experience over false metrics like megapixels and screen to body ratio.

Apple's rent seeking on NFC already causes me bad user experience because when I'm not somewhere where Apple Pay is supported, I miss out on banking apps that support NFC.

Also, governments(UK, EU, USA - all of them) are eager to turn the tech companies into a police and there's a war in Europe and political turmoil all over the world where you and hundreds of millions are at risk of falling at the wrong side of the aggressive dominant political movements.

I'm sure Tim Cook and anybody at Apple wouldn't want to be the tech suppliers who helped governments to enforce policies that some time in the future might be viewed just as badly as the German policies around 1940s. At this very moment, Apple might believe that they are on the right side of the history but what happens if Trump wins in a year? What happens if the far right in EU begins dominating the politics? They are angry and they want vengeance, they go after people all the time. Maybe Apple was able to say F.U. to the UK and said it will not implement spying into its iMessage&Facetime services and leave UK if they have to but can they do the same in USA for example? Can Apple say no to Trump admin and leave the US markets if they decide to ban encryption so they can hunt down the "enemies of the state" and "dry the swamp".

Very dangerous times, no company should be in position to become the police.

Totally expected nonsense from current greedy psychopathic Apple.

They are absolutely gatekeepers and have an absolutely unreasonable amount of control on devices they are not supposed to own anymore because people bought them.

I think they also should look into their behavior of forcing update, in order to make devices obsolete earlier by making them run slower even though they worked completely fine for everything that was required of them. I thought it was conspiracy theories but right now, just after the annual release and just after a mysterious new update with little information on what it is supposed to fix; my iPhone 12 Mini is starting to seriously lag both in Apple apps and 3rd party apps. Thats a very disturbing coincidence, especially since it's not the first time it has happened. By the way I am still on "old" iOS 16.7.2 because I don't trust Apple release anymore. In fact, if I could, I would go back to the iOS the iPhone was sold with; but you can't because Apple is selling their update bullshit narrative in their marketing. From where I sit there are a lot more cons than pros for the average user...

Challenging the law makes Apple look like they know better which laws should be obeyed.like they consider themselves as ultimate authority on any question..