• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    5 months ago

    What legal foothold, exactly? The conclusion that their messaging service isn’t important enough to negatively affect the market?

    Whether or not Apple can get any market growth moving forward

    If they don’t grow, the EU won’t need to do anything, because the status quo remains.

    And nothing anyone in trying in the EU will move forward anything near the weight this attempt did.

    The commission that did the initial market research is legally obligated to continuously monitor markets. This isn’t a one-off thing, nor was it an “attempt” at anything. If the EU wanted iMessage to be opened up, they would’ve written the law better.

    The DMA is a law to protect against de-facto gatekeepers, and iMessage just isn’t important enough to be called a gatekeeper.