Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the EU | Apple
Apple said the European Commission could stop sending some products and services to 27 country blocks unless changed.
The last of the conflicts with Brussels, the iPhone manufacturer, said that the Digital Markets Law has led to a worse experience for Apple users, has been exposed to security risks and Apple products disrupt the uninterrupted path of work together.
The Silicon Valley Company was presented to the review of the three -year -old legislation, which aims to regulate the gate watchman’s power of the largest digital companies, including the commission’s search engines, application providers and messaging services.
He said that through Airpods, features such as live translation delayed the launch and ACT reflected the iPhone screens to the laptop due to non -Apple products and services.
“DMA means that the list of delayed features in the EU will probably be longer, and EU users’ experiences in Apple products will be further behind,” he said. Apple, Brussels’ largest smartphone provider in the EU Samsung, the rules have not been implemented unjust competition, he added.
Among the requirements of DMA, Apple enables the headphones made by other brands to work with iPhones. He said that it was a block of broadcasting live translation in the EU because it allowed competing companies to access the data from speeches and creates a privacy problem.
Apple said that DMA should be repealed or at least replaced with more appropriate legislation. In the future, he did not specify which products can be prevented in the EU, but the Apple Watch, which was released first decades ago, may not be released in the EU today.
The last conflict between California -based company and the European Commission. Earlier this year, Apple objected by EU to the Fine for € 500 million, which was alleged to prevent application developers from application users to cheaper opportunities outside the application store.
In August, US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs against countries that were not specified in retaliation to the rules that connect US technology companies.
In an article on Social, he said: ım I will withstand the countries that attack our incredible American technology companies. Digital taxes, digital services legislation and digital market arrangements are designed to damage or discriminate against American technology.
“Also, extremely, they give a full pass to China’s largest technology companies. This must end and end now!”
Within the scope of DMA, Apple said, “Instead of innovation, successful companies are bending the laws to comply with their own agenda – to collect more data from EU citizens or to get Apple’s technology free of charge.”
He said that the rules under the law affect users access to applications. “Pornography applications are available from other market places on the iPhone – especially for children because of the risks they create for children, applications we have never allowed at the App Store,” he said.
The European Commission was approached for a comment.
