Microsoft's Edge browser, Bing search, and ad business also avoid regulations.
    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Now that you’ve let your guard down, Apple is free to do whatever they want. It’s exactly exactly what Apple wanted.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          maybe…

          but hat could take many years to spin up another massive lawsuit like this, and, by then, Apple could possibly have profited kajillions, and/or have modified their communications protocols just sufficiently to skirt regulations. or one of a dozen other legal maneuvers around this or a number of other possible future regulations…

            • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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              9 months ago

              I try not to predict the future. it took them a long time to get here. I they’e going to loop back around, I can’t see it happening again soon.

                • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  It’s not about the explosive growth (or not) of iMessage. It’s a matter of fact about the legal foothold that Apple now holds. That won’t be dislodged anytime soon. Whether or not Apple can get any market growth moving forward, now the EU will have to re-file any efforts to this ruling to them in the future should they try. That is a big deal. And nothing anyone in trying in the EU will move forward anything near the weight this attempt did. 

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          no, merely considered irrelevant— for legal purposes. why? read the headline.