<story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&amp;gt; Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and&amp;#x2F;or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t imagine that flying with the EU...&lt;p&gt;The regulator will argue that the technology in the phone has already been paid for by the buyer of the hardware (which came with a license for iOS)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crowcroft</author><text>I’m paying how much to buy a phone from Apple, and then they also want to get paid every time I install something whether they’re involved or not? It’s none of their business what I want to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&amp;gt; Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and&amp;#x2F;or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t imagine that flying with the EU...&lt;p&gt;The regulator will argue that the technology in the phone has already been paid for by the buyer of the hardware (which came with a license for iOS)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mil22</author><text>They may not like it, but the question is: is it actually illegal under the new DMA regulations as they are currently written?&lt;p&gt;The DMA is 66 pages of legalese, otherwise I would have read it to find out:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;legal-content&amp;#x2F;EN&amp;#x2F;TXT&amp;#x2F;PDF&amp;#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32022R1925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;legal-content&amp;#x2F;EN&amp;#x2F;TXT&amp;#x2F;PDF&amp;#x2F;?uri=CELE...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>