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EU Targets Apple, Others for DMA Compliance Violations


The European Commission (EC) is moving swiftly to address DMA compliance violations that are at odds with the letter of the law.

The European Commission (EC) is moving swiftly to address Digital Markets Act (DMA) compliance violations that it says are at odds with the letter of the law. But I find it interesting that the EU specifically called out one of the three big-bucket issues I raised recently in Mr. Cook, Tear Down That Walled Garden(Premium): That Apple, a company famed for its user experience designs, somehow implemented a convoluted, illogical, and inconsistent design for configuring the default web browser in iOS specifically to confuse users and prevent them from making a change. Vestager goes on to explain that Apple also failed to make many of its in-box apps, like Photos, uninstallable by end users, while also preventing them from changing their default status in Cloud and elsewhere.

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