| ▲ | znpy 7 hours ago |
| It really depends if apple is making it hard to collect data that apple itself can collect with blanket permissions from users. In that case yes, apple is abusing its dominant position and is competing unfairly with other companies. And they must be fined for that. Apple does advertising too: https://ads.apple.com |
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| ▲ | monocularvision 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Apple is allowed to share data among its apps. Third-party app developers are allowed to share data within their apps. If third-party developers want to share data with _other_ third-party developers (aka the advertising ID), then they need the explicitly request permission. It is fairly straightforward. |
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| ▲ | nicole_express 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nothing about unfair competition is mentioned in the press release, so I can only assume this wasn't a significant factor in the competition authority's decision. Unfortunately, I can't read Italian, so I'm not sure if this is brought up in the 199-page full text of the order. |
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| ▲ | dns_snek 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The press release is.. not great. The summary document linked at the bottom of the page is written in English and makes it clear that the fine was issued due to their double standards: > xii. As a matter of fact, revenues from App Store services increased, in terms of higher
commissions collected from developers through the platform; likewise, Apple’s advertising division, which is not subject to the same stringent rules, ultimately benefited from increased revenues and higher volumes of intermediated ads [1] https://en.agcm.it/dotcmsdoc/pressrelease/A561_SUMMARY.pdf | |
| ▲ | amarcheschi 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's way too long for me, but just skimping I read that 1)apple was reported to the authority by meta, the authority then started investigating (and this is honestly extremely funny) 2)apple says that att prompt is enough to work as a gdpr consent form, meta didn't agree with this. The authority after a long investigation found apple was in wrongdoing because the att prompt breaks some rules on I don't understand what and so is not gdpr compliant - the only thing I understood is that it doesn't provide enough informations to the end user 3)authority also notes that this prompt was imposed by Apple without input from third parties, thus distorting the market because the same prompt is not required for apple's own apps |
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| ▲ | concinds 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wonder where this narrative came from. It's simply not true. Third-party apps with ATT denied have the same data access as Apple does. |
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