India Calls Out App Store
Aditya Kalra (via Ryan Christoffel):
An investigation by India’s antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging “in abusive conduct and practices”, a confidential report seen by Reuters showed.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been investigating Apple Inc, opens new tab since 2021 for possibly abusing its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary in-app purchase system.
That’s OK, if India is too mean to them Apple can just start withholding features and/or pull out of the country. Like they’re going to do in the EU.
Previously:
Update (2024-08-14): Hartley Charlton:
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has withdrawn two key reports that alleged Apple breached local competition laws. The recall, which is highly unusual, comes after the company filed a complaint claiming that the reports contained sensitive commercial data that was improperly disclosed to its competitors, including Tinder-owner Match Group.
See also: Ben Lovejoy.
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Can't tell whether or not Michel Love is being serious or not.
And I can't remember the name of that law about parodies of extremist being inextinguishable from actual extremists either.
Age is taking its toll
@Kristoffer Michael Love is not being serious, he is referring to Apple's penchant for threatening to quit markets or degrade experiences for the user's there, but when it's India, Japan, South Korea, the EU, etc. Apple is fast running out of market regulators to piss off.
The more Apple skips features for non-US markets, the more Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, etc will eat their lunch. Their choice.
@Kristoffer, I did a list many years ago on Macrumors, and I remember Apple thrreatting to pull out of every country except US and China. On top of my head they threaten UK, EU, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Canada and probably a few more.
