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Building Under Regulation by Steve Sinofsky
An essay on the EU Digital Markets Act and Apple’s Update on apps distributed in the European Union (and some personal history)
If you have followed regulatory topics such as GMO foods, diesel cars, or even the Dyson vacuum cleaner (examples from Ridley’s book) or even standardizing on the micro-USB cable (yes, before USB-C there was this) or today’s cookie warnings, the pattern of a process leading to solutions that are net negatives for consumers is apparent. About the Flash runtime, Steve simply said “We know from painful experience that letting a third-party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.” He continued to elaborate. My hope is that by sharing all these thoughts in this lengthy essay I would leave you with an appreciation for what Apple has accomplished and in many ways a recognition that they are handling this with incredible aplomb in the face of what I think of as an assault on a brand promise that single-handedly brought computing into the twenty-first century.
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