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EU may require Apple to let iPhone owners delete the Photos app

A remark by EU competition head Margrethe Vestager has suggested that Apple may be required to let iPhone owners delete...

While this possibility hasn’t previously been raised, Vestager mentioned in a brief speech that this was one of the things Apple had failed to do in its DMA response – and it would obviously involve a massive change to the way iOS works … Vestager is saying that to be compliant with the DMA, Apple needs to allow third-party apps to serve as the system-level image library and camera roll. Some commentators – Gruber among them – have been making the unlikely suggestion that the scope of the EU’s demands might result in Apple ceasing to sell iPhones within the member countries.

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