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Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology

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Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more.

The new EU regulations force sweeping changes on some of the world’s most widely used tech products, including Apple’s app store, Google search and messaging platforms, including Meta’s WhatsApp. And they mark a turning point in a global effort by regulators to bring tech giants to heel after years of allegations that the companies harmed competition and left consumers worse off.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 8 months ago (16 children)

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can't keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

[–] TrickDacy 60 points 8 months ago (10 children)

They aren't mad about the app store. All they did was just create a separate pay structure for non apple app store apps which effectively makes it impossible to afford to create a successful app outside their ecosystem. Those pieces of shit probably feel pretty smugly proud of themselves for flouting the regulation, but I hope the EU brings the hammer down much harder because they clearly are trying to get around the entire point of the regulation.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can't charge for this.

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That'll do some good in the coffers of the EU.