<story><title>Apple found in breach of EU competition rules</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/24/apple-breach-eu-competition-rules-digital-markets-act</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gary_0</author><text>Go back in time 20 years and tell someone that the most popular personal computer taxes every transaction that runs on it for 30% and has absolute control over what software runs on it including banning any programs it doesn&amp;#x27;t like, and they&amp;#x27;d look at you like you were crazy. And then be like, &amp;quot;Fucking Bill Gates! How&amp;#x27;d he pull that off?&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>topherPedersen</author><text>I wish the United States would follow the EU on this. It&amp;#x27;s insane that 1 company has near complete control over what software can and cannot be published, and they get to take a tax on all software sold. Absolutely insane. Obviously there&amp;#x27;s web, Android, Windows, Linux, gaming consoles, and smart tvs, so there are some work-arounds to avoid the evil empire, but most consumers here in the United States use iPhones and probably have no idea that Apple is taxing all of the app developers and exercising complete editorial control over all software published for the iPhone. Do you think consumers know that Apple literally reviews all software companies products and then decide whether they will allow that company or product to exist? Even worse, its not even high level executives making these decisions, it&amp;#x27;s $20 an hour employees on their App Review Board making these decisions to kill entire companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leptons</author><text>&amp;gt;and has absolute control over what software runs on it including banning any programs it doesn&amp;#x27;t like&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t forget taking the idea from an app developer, implementing it themselves, and then banning the app from the developer that came up with the idea. Apple has done this so many times, and it&amp;#x27;s completely abusive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple found in breach of EU competition rules</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/24/apple-breach-eu-competition-rules-digital-markets-act</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gary_0</author><text>Go back in time 20 years and tell someone that the most popular personal computer taxes every transaction that runs on it for 30% and has absolute control over what software runs on it including banning any programs it doesn&amp;#x27;t like, and they&amp;#x27;d look at you like you were crazy. And then be like, &amp;quot;Fucking Bill Gates! How&amp;#x27;d he pull that off?&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>topherPedersen</author><text>I wish the United States would follow the EU on this. It&amp;#x27;s insane that 1 company has near complete control over what software can and cannot be published, and they get to take a tax on all software sold. Absolutely insane. Obviously there&amp;#x27;s web, Android, Windows, Linux, gaming consoles, and smart tvs, so there are some work-arounds to avoid the evil empire, but most consumers here in the United States use iPhones and probably have no idea that Apple is taxing all of the app developers and exercising complete editorial control over all software published for the iPhone. Do you think consumers know that Apple literally reviews all software companies products and then decide whether they will allow that company or product to exist? Even worse, its not even high level executives making these decisions, it&amp;#x27;s $20 an hour employees on their App Review Board making these decisions to kill entire companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>circuit10</author><text>To be clear I don’t think this is an acceptable practice, but the concept wouldn’t be completely unfamiliar because Nintendo did this with the NES and their lockout chip&amp;#x2F;seal of quality system</text></comment>