Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): “The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper.”

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  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Apple has also been known to ignore laws and pay fines for breaking them. The store is a major revenue stream so they might just do that.

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      9 months ago

      Yup. If the only penalty is a fine, and that fine doesn’t scale to the business’ profits? A profitable enough business could simply factor in the fines as a cost of doing business.

      Imagine you could make $1000 and only get fined $200 after the fact. No extra penalties. Just a flat $200 fine for every time you violate it. So as long as you expect to be able to top that $200 fine, a business will elect to just pay the fine and continue doing the illegal thing.

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        9 months ago

        If the only penalty is a fine

        The regulator has the power to ban sales, so I don’t think that particular “cost of doing business” line applies to this dispute.