Regulatory solution

Posted Jun 28, 2024 17:01 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Regulatory solution by khim
Parent article: Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections

> Now, if you assume a different scenario, where EU doesn't collapse in 10 years and continue to bring billions for 100 years then sure, “playing fair” would be better, but how do you know EU would survive, let alone thrive, for 100 years?

No. I'm assuming a different scenario where that doesn't matter. If Apple is perceived as gaming the rules, then the rules will change. In a lot less than 10 years. And in a way that is likely to be - shall we say - painful ... depending on how seriously the regulators are pissed off.

Cheers,
Wol

Regulatory solution

Posted Jun 28, 2024 17:26 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> If Apple is perceived as gaming the rules, then the rules will change. In a lot less than 10 years.

How do you know? Apple is gaming the rules the whole existence of Apple. It's, essentially, what makes Apple Apple.

Gaming the system is in Apple's DNA. Remember how Jobs swindled Wozniak before Apple even existed and paid $375 instead of $5000? That's how Apple operated it's whole life.

> And in a way that is likely to be - shall we say - painful ... depending on how seriously the regulators are pissed off.

I've heard these talks for decades, sorry. Nothing happens in a lot less than 10 years in European courts and Apple knows that.

And now, almost half-century after it was founded, you say that it would be punished for something it successfully did for half-century? Count me unimpressed. Sure, it would be punished, but so what? That's part of the business-plan and it works.

Just as one example: how long did it took for EU to make it use normal USB connector for it's phone?