Many thanks for your enquiries dated 29 January 2024 and 10 February 2024 and your interest in the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”).
Your questions concern the Commission’s decision of 5 September 2023 designating Apple Inc. (“Apple”) as a gatekeeper under the DMA (see here for the public version of the decision).
The Commission’s designation decision is based on the evidence available to the Commission and submissions made by Apple taking into account the legal framework under the DMA. Regarding your questions, we note the following:
<span style="color:#323232;">The Commission designated Apple’s operating system iOS. The Commission considers that Apple has provided sufficient facts and arguments to hold that iOS and iPadOS constitute each a distinct operating system core platform service, with only iOS meeting the quantitative thresholds for designation. However, the Commission has opened a market investigation in the qualitative designation of iPadOS. This investigation is currently ongoing. Should the Commission qualitatively designate iPadOS, it would be subject to the same obligations under the DMA as iOS.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">The Commission designated Apple’s software application store App Store, which is currently offered on different Apple devices running on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS as a single core platform service, irrespective of the device on which it is used. This is because, based on the evidence in the file, the App Store is used for the same common purpose from both an end user and a business user perspective across all devices on which it is available, namely to intermediate the distribution of apps.
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We hope this answers your questions. For any further information, including on the upcoming compliance phase, please visit the Commission’s DMA website under digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu
Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....
I’ve been buying movies and series on Bluray, which I can rip and resell. Not every show has a physical release, but the most popular do and you do not have to watch every show there is.
Es gibt beim Nutriscore nur 3 Sonderkategorien und Schokolade gehört nicht dazu. Kann also mit den meisten verarbeiteten Lebensmitteln wie Pizza, Nudeln oder Tiefkühlgemüse verglichen werden.
Dein oberes Zitat ist leicht irreführend. Man soll damit Lebensmittel der gleichen Kategorie besser vergleichen können (was auch stimmt), jedoch heißt es nicht, dass man die beste Schokolade eine A gibt und die Schlechteste eine E. Wenn du z.B 10 Schokodenriegeln mit einer Nutriscore von E siehst und eine mit D soll dich der Nutriscore verleiten den mit D zu nehmen. Und eine hypothetische Schokoladenriegel mit einer Nutriscore von A muss auch die gleichen Kriterien erfüllen wie alle anderen Lebensmittel die nicht in den Sonderkategorien liegen. Vollkorntoast hat eigentlich immer den Nutriscore A und Schokolade E, deshalb kann man Produkte unterschiedlicher Kategorien auch schwerer vergleichen, weil es unmöglich ist Schokolade mit einer Nutriscore von A zu finden.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
GNOME isn’t even great for touch devices, as it relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts. Very unintuitive to open apps by pressing a small button on the to left screen.
Speed (mander.xyz)
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstechnica.com)
To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....
Bell curve with no bell curve (sh.itjust.works)
California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool (www.theguardian.com)
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards (www.theregister.com)
My government, ladies and gentlemen!
ICYMI: Some of Apple's EU changes are coming only to the iPhone, not the iPad. (9to5mac.com)
The iPad is not part of all modifications made by Cupertino to adhere to the EU law....
GloriousEggroll announces new project to unify Proton runtimes (files.catbox.moe)
github.com/GloriousEggroll/ULWGL...
Common Voice - Donate your voice to teach machines how people speak | Mozilla (commonvoice.mozilla.org)
It’s frustrating when you’re not understood — especially when you’re trying to speak to Siri, Alexa, or another internet-connected device....
[Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why (odysee.com)
ich🍫iel (feddit.de) German
Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average (video.hardlimit.com)
From Hardlimit
He's not popular, but he means well (lemmy.ml)
Please, do not use Brave.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
C.R.E.A.M. (mander.xyz)
privatization of water.... (feddit.de)
How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 (www.wired.com)
Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country....
I HATE electron (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
You're hired! (sopuli.xyz)
Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability (siliconangle.com)
extension is INCOMPATIBLE with current GNOME version (discuss.tchncs.de)