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Wow, they do this just 2 days after being fined $2 billion by EU!
Unless you don't know this "Tim Apple", those fines have a tendency to increase with repeated violations.
They better increase quickly. Apple's bank account is large.
$2B on day one. Double that every instance. EU will own Apple in a week or two.
They'll just stop selling their products in the EU before that bridge is even on the horizon.
What's not to love? Then do the same with Suckerberg please, kthxbye.
I'm an American but even I know your in the minority with that opinion. You tell everyone in the EU to throw away their iPhone and delete their Facebook, I'm sure it's gonna be really easy to convince your EU friends. I have a little respect for Apple, not a lot of companies will psudo stand up to the US government after the Boston Bomber on privacy grounds, even if it was just for show.
You would be surprised on how Europeans can adapt to that very quickly. If you take Apple out of the European market sure it will cause some fuss, with time we adapt.
Bruh 2 days without Facebook in the states and people's mental state drastically improves. There will be some that are really mad about it but the ones that aren't will find an elated sense of catharsis
No, if you take way facebook those people will move to either reddit on the left or /pol/ on the right. At least /pol/ takes some critical thinking skills to get to so the trolls there have to do something half smart, reddit is just an echo chamber. I'll take Facebook grannies over either though.
Are you really saying Facebook is better then reddit and 4chan?
Depends on the board, yeah probably better than some of the chans, reddit, hands down Facebook is better. At least most Facebook people don't pretend to hide behind psudo anonymity and I can see most of my Facebook friends in real life if I want to.
Don’t tell him! Corporations being hit with massive fines is my kink!
$2 billion, that's 4 whole days of profits for them.
$2B is actually 2% of their profit. That's 7.3 days.
Ah yes but those people love money so much, they are probably devastated.🤪
So you wouldn't mind if 2% of your yearly salary after tax would disappear, right?
That's a false comparison. Salary after tax is not comparable to profit. Profit is after ALL expenses. So if I did something really really stupid, after being warned about it and repeatedly, and was fined 2% after ALL expenses, I'd say I got off easy.
Really, it's just an asshole tax. Most restaurants these days have extra fees that exceed 2% just because. Hell, once upon a time, a 15% tip was given for great service. Now it seems like 20-22% is often the lowest in the recommended tip section. 2% of extra money is nothing, especially when the fine is less than what was earned from the infraction. It's a lot easier to stomach a 2 billion dollar fine, when you earned 4 billion because of it.
Those tip rates are a US thing, because it’s a hidden way to increase prices without having to write it down anywhere.
No, it's not false.
Think of some small family owned business, like a ma and pa shop. What they have after all expenses, the profit, is what they live off. That's their "salary".
What you have left after all expenses is your savings. In a business, savings would be an investment, which does not count as profit.
2% of nothing is still nothing 🤷
I'm glad you will sacrifice your salary for the greater good!
There's no wording in that law that says apple has to allow third party apps for alternate app stores or anything to be made available within apples app store. More like apple just has to allow sideloading. Why would Apple want to pay for the server expense of another company by-passing giving apple a share of the profits?
I hate both companies, but if I owned Apple, I'd be after doing the same thing. Epic can get people to sodeload that crap.
You need an Apple developer account to even make software for iOS. Alternate app stores are distributed on the web, not Apple’s App Store. Since an alternative app store is an iOS app, Apple banning Epic’s developer account means they’re banned from making one.