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Apple’s reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill
Apple is increasingly making big product changes reluctantly in response to legal issues and regulator demands, instead of being driven by innovation.
Earlier this month, Apple also announced that developers would be able to link out to the web to tell them about alternative subscription methods for content available as digital purchases in-app. Lawmakers are already looking to poke Apple’s monolithic business in various spots to see if it isn’t creeping into antitrust territory – or, as in Europe, already enacting laws to limit their control and power. Acting like a kicked puppy when it comes to actually putting these things into practice isn’t going to convince these regulators of Apple’s arguments that these kinds of measures aren’t needed and are in fact user hostile.
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