When it comes to holding back the big tech companies, the European Union is doing a great job Where Apple forced On the adoption of the USB-C port in iPhone devices and do not forget to protect data and now has been approved legislation that we can say about it as historic, which will work to regulate the work of companies such as Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and others.
Big tech companies
The European Commission proposed the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) in 2020 and now both laws have been formally adopted by the European Parliament as the Digital Services Package in order to rein in gatekeepers from big tech companies.
Gatekeeper means the giant companies that have a strong influence in the market. Apple is classified as a gatekeeper due to its annual sales volume in the European Union and its operation of platforms with a large number of active users. Therefore, it will be subject to the new law and any company that is described as a gatekeeper will have to Subsequently:
- Agree to sideload and allow users to install apps from third-party stores.
- Allow developers to offer alternative payment methods in apps and promote offers outside the store ecosystem.
- Allowing developers to integrate their digital apps and services directly with those of the gatekeeper This includes making messaging, voice, and video calling services interoperable with third-party services on demand.
- Give developers access to any system feature such as NFC, secure processors, authentication mechanisms, and software used to control these technologies.
- Allow users to install the apps they want and the ability to remove pre-installed apps in the phone.
- Giving users the option to change the default voice assistant to a third-party alternative.
- Share data and metrics with developers and competitors, including marketing and advertising performance data.
- Establishment of an independent “compliance function” group to monitor compliance of the gatekeepers with EU legislation with an independent senior manager, sufficient authority, resources and access to management.
- Informing the European Commission of mergers and acquisitions.
The new legislation also seeks to ensure that gatekeepers can no longer:
- Pre-installing certain apps and enforcing certain services on users such as web browsers.
- Require developers to use certain services or frameworks such as browser engines, payment systems, and proof of identity in order to list their apps in app stores.
- Giving their products, applications or services preferential treatment or prioritizing them over competitors.
- Reuse of private data collected during one service for use in another.
- Setting unfair terms for other companies.
The European legislature has also approved a Digital Services Act (DSA) that requires platforms to do more to monitor the internet for illegal content.
When and how will the new legislation be implemented?
The European Union will start implementing the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act in 2024, and gatekeepers who ignore the rules after that date will face fines of up to 10% of the company's total annual sales worldwide or 20% in the case of repeated violations as well as penalties. Periodicity of up to 5% of the company's total revenue worldwide.
When Gatekeepers commit systematic violations, the European Commission will be able to impose additional sanctions, such as obligating Gatekeeper to sell a division, business, or parts thereof including units, assets, intellectual property rights or trademarks, or even preventing Gatekeeper from acquiring any company Provides services in the digital sector.
Apple's position
To this day, Apple has vigorously resisted attempts by governments to force changes to its operating systems and services. For example, the company chose to pay a fine of $5.5 million each week for months in the Netherlands rather than allowing third-party payment systems on Dutch dating apps.
Outside the European Union, Apple's ecosystem is under increasingly intense scrutiny by governments around the world including in the US, UK, Japan, South Korea and others with claims to allow for sideloading and interoperability. and regulators around the world.
Finally, Google’s revenues last year amounted to about 257 billion dollars, so failure to comply with the laws of the European Union means a fine of up to 25 billion dollars, and for Apple, which achieved 366 billion dollars, this means a fine of 36 billion dollars, and these amounts are not simple even for giant companies such as Apple and Google and others.
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They want to eliminate Apple for its power and the strength of its operating system only
The topic is far from being a monopoly and privacy, but rather it is to configure and control the technologies coming from wearable devices and a virtual world and others
I am surprised by those who lament and shout because of allowing external applications for fear of the safety of their iPhone or for fear of harmful external applications 🤷🏻 ♂️ The law is what you need to carry from outside the Apple Store 😂 and no one hit you on the hand to prove something without the Apple Store 😆 So let's not panic and oppression 🤷🏻 ♂️ Do not carry anything from outside the store and rest assured and let others take a risk
When applications spread outside the framework of Apple, these applications may contain malicious software, and this can be bad for all of us as users, as they will work in the environment of the IOS system and exchange data with all Apple devices, in addition to this, the messaging and Facetime applications will be opened, etc… for the systems Others, such as Android, which is a source for hackers (and Apple is not stupid to refuse to spread its applications to users of other systems and make additional profits, but you know that this is not feasible for security), from the above, it is naive to think that this law will affect only the user of the device himself, but rather it will affect We all have one way or another.
Unfortunately, your dialogue is full of authoritarian tone and defamation of readers through your use of words devoid of respect for the other opinion and accusing them of shouting, shouting, panic and oppression is totally unacceptable. Your comment is returned to you and we advise you to respect the feelings and opinions of iPhone Islam followers and take such matters simply and calmly and make your discussion purposeful, objective and respectful
Away from politics and the true Islamic religion at all
Who among Arab citizens is to curb the unjust laws of their countries in the field of these technologies (in particular) without any citizen having the right to ask officials to give an explanation for their arbitrary measures, such as closing some of the features provided by iPhones and closing some applications such as WhatsApp and others in some regions and governorates of Arab countries?
Historic decision??
That's the worst that could happen
God takes them, why do they interfere with companies??
Total chaos and loss of control, this is what happens
I myself, as a user, chose iOS because it works in this way. There is one store in it. All I want is the system closed and controlling the applications and others. I know that the system is like this and I like it if I don't like taking Android
Should there be a choice, not the situation like this, the rape of safety?!
How I hate this failed union
The European Union is not the concern of European citizens in order to defend them and is afraid for their money and privacy. They are only the lack of success of phone companies, whether it is Apple, Facebook, Google, or any giant American company entering the European market...Europe has not made a smart phone so far, Europe has not opened communication sites Social Europe has nothing but to comment and impose taxes on all non-European markets because its sales are not worldwide, even in terms of phone spare parts or the labor force in the phone industry. Only it can impose taxes and provisions ... if I did not know whether there was a smartphone, tablet, or Abad or any smart product made in Europe???
I ask the commentators to answer the question.
Thank you, it was a topic that caught my attention, sorry for the length
Thanks for the article
There are some important points for users
There are also some points that are unfair to users
For example: sideloading weakens the protection of devices, and the main advantage of buying Apple devices is the protection and stability of the system
So I hope there is a middle ground that satisfies everyone
Very happy news for several reasons, including the monopoly that caused the high prices, the support of developers and the competitiveness of applications, the issue of privacy. Also, Apple, the user needs many applications to make the iPhone better, such as Jailbreak and Apple resisted this product for years, and we noticed in its modern product an addition of the features offered by the gel and the expectation that there are applications A famous woman who will be punished because she imposes laws on me according to her owners and company policy, knowing that without the user she has no effect. I apologize for the length and thank you. iPhone Islam.
They decide, we listen and we implement. We have nothing to do with it.
Thank you very much, very useful topic
The law did not deal with Apple’s concerns logically, for example, downloading programs from a source outside the Apple Store, and this exposes the system to hacking due to Apple’s lack of control over it.
I expect that Apple will legally resist this issue and will not give up, as we have forgotten an important thing, which is that these companies are American and therefore their interests are the interests of the United States, and as we see before and now, America imposes what it wants when necessary, even towards the Europeans. Certain amendments through the judiciary and lawsuits as an appropriate outlet for the subject.
This law is ridiculous with all the meaning of the word from description, while the resonant slogan of allowing access to applications and others makes it difficult for the system to deal with counterfeit applications or stealing and spying applications, and this is what these countries indicate with this law, while safe payment and if it deprives the user of some services, it is It is better than someone stealing the money from his bank account, and instead of the company not being responsible for protecting the user through barriers and requirements, the user becomes the one responsible for protecting himself, and unfortunately most of the people are unable to do so, and cases of hacking, theft and problems increase because of a stupid, clumsy law that does not take into account the needs of The individual only imposes penalties for gaining or losing individuals that do not concern legislators
What did the union enter and why did they impose and interfere in corporate politics?
Apple, as well as the European Union, exaggerate them with restraint, and that their slogans are false in all sports, economic, political, and most importantly moral fields