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Well! Look what founder and / co-founder Jack just gave $10m to...

'The team at “and Other Stuff” is also working on a social media “Bill of Rights”…which spells out what social media platforms need to provide in areas like , , , , , self-governance, and .' 👏
techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack

The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.

The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?

Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?

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OWA hat einen Blogpost geschrieben zum DMA Workshop der EU Kommission mit Apple.

Es ist wirklich unglaublich wie schwach hier top Anwälte argumentieren oder besser nicht argumentieren und eher Luftblasen sprechen, anstatt Fragen zu beantworten.

Im Video, welches im Blogpost am Anfang zu finden ist, die lustigsten Stellen aus dem Apple DMA Hearing.

Die Fragen sind richtig gut. Danke an
@owa und die anderen Gäste 💪, die die Zeit investiert haben, dort sinnvolle Beteiligungen einzubringen.

Der Blogpost von Open Web Advocacy ist zwar sehr lang aber wirklich gut - die Lektüre lohnt!

#DMA #Apple #Browser #macOS #iOS

RE:
mastodon.social/users/owa/statuses/114850246920974522

"#Safari is one of Apple’s most financially successful #products and the highest margin product Apple has ever made."

TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical #restrictions are #blocking other #browser vendors from successfully offering their own #engines to users in the EU.
Apple is not in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding browsers and web apps.

long read - but well worth it!

#dma #apple #europe #market #monopoly

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/app

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Open Web AdvocacyApple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

"TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) workshop, Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them.

Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google. For each 1% browser market share that Apple loses for Safari, Apple is set to lose $200 million in revenue per year.

Ensuring other browsers are not able to compete fairly is critical to Apple’s best and easiest revenue stream, and allows Apple to retain full control over the maximum capabilities of web apps, limiting their performance and utility to prevent them from meaningfully competing with native apps distributed through their app store. Consumers and developers (native or web) then suffer due to a lack of competition.

This browser engine ban is unique to Apple and no other gatekeeper imposes such a restriction. Until Apple lifts these barriers they are not in effective compliance with the DMA."

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Open Web AdvocacyApple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy
#EU#Apple#iOS

Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (#DMA) workshop, #Apple claimed it didn’t know why no #browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them.

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/app

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Open Web AdvocacyApple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

Kartellamtschef Andreas Mundt warnt vor der Macht von US-Tech-Konzernen wie Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta und Microsoft. Er kritisiert ihre zentrale Stellung im Netz und fordert schärfere Regeln. Ohne effektive Kontrolle könnten diese Gatekeeper Märkte und Meinungen dominieren. Er verweist auf das Wettbewerbsrecht und den Digital Markets Act (DMA) als Hebel, um Machtmissbrauch einzudämmen.

#Kartellamt #BigTech #DMA #Wettbewerb #Datenschutz

meedia.de/news/beitrag/19679-k

MEEDIAAndreas Mundt: Kartellamtschef warnt vor Macht der US-Tech-KonzerneDas Bundeskartellamt wacht hierzulande über den Wettbewerb der Unternehmen, auch im Digitalbereich. Bei der Vorstellung des Jahresberichts hat der Chef der Bonner Behörde nun eine deutliche Warnung ausgesprochen.

:fsfe: July Newsletter 🗞️

Summer has arrived, and with it came our annual Summer Meeting, where
we spent time with our community!

🔸 Learn more about the latest developments surrounding the #DMA

🔹 Take a few minutes to share your perspective in our Interoperability Survey

🔸Listen to the newest episode of our podcast...

and more!

fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202507.en.

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@RandamuMaki @GrapheneOS Someone who said they were from GrapheneOS posted an question in the online forum of the #DMAWorkshop. When the #Alphabet people dodged, I reformulated the question and asked in there in person. They dodged again, claiming they didn't know what #Google #PlayIntegrity and #GMS meant. Looks like calculated ignorance since those are key to their abusive, trust-building behaviors. #gatekeepers only send competition lawyers to #DMA events so they can dodge technical details.

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...on the positive side, it was expected and both decisions seem rather strong - defending them should be much less resource intensive than traditional competition law cases, hence enforcement can move on! But, yes, extra funding is needed: support is there-Draghi only yesterday reiterated his #DMA❤️

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