Microsoft's: "We look forward to continuing to work with the European Commission to finalize our compliance obligations."
Google: "While we support many of the DMA's ambitions around consumer choice and interoperability, the new rules involve difficult trade-offs, and we're concerned that some of these rules will reduce the choices available to people and businesses in Europe."
Apple: “The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users from the unavoidable increased privacy and security threats this regulation brings."
Android and Windows have lived in the chaos of open platforms so much that they can shrug off most of these regulations. Apple's entire business model is being a walled garden.
I look forward to having uncensored versions of apps that don't force idiotic American puritanism on me. Who knows, maybe I'd also like to use a proper Python interpreter once in a while or a torrent client.
> Apple's entire business model is being a walled garden
Is it really their business model? They still earn most of their revenue with hardware. I think they‘d do just fine even if they opened up more. Their institutionalized control fetish prevents it.
Apple makes about 40 billion in revenue from iPhones a quarter, and maybe about 20 billion from apps? But keep in mind there are marginal costs for every iPhone sold (manufacturing, distribution, etc) which is not the same as their app store. Their storefront is their real moneymaker.
Aside from that, part of the whole Apple marketing shtick of "it just works" is somewhat at risk.
Google: "While we support many of the DMA's ambitions around consumer choice and interoperability, the new rules involve difficult trade-offs, and we're concerned that some of these rules will reduce the choices available to people and businesses in Europe."
Apple: “The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users from the unavoidable increased privacy and security threats this regulation brings."
Android and Windows have lived in the chaos of open platforms so much that they can shrug off most of these regulations. Apple's entire business model is being a walled garden.