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I think the consensus is that the U.S. is going to be opposed [to the Commission’s decisions],
Van Coniglio said
Third party developers will still not have real app freedom and interoperability can still be hindered by Apple,
said Jan Pefrat of advocacy group European Digital RightsToday’s decisions wrap us in red tape,
Apple said in a statement
Both practices negatively impact many European and non-European businesses that rely on Google Search or Google Play to reach their users in the EU,
the bloc's digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, said in a statement
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Effective interoperability for third-party connected devices is an important step towards opening Apple's ecosystem. This will lead to a better choice for consumers,
the EU's competition chief Teresa Ribera said in a statementIt's bad for our products and for our European users,
it said,The two preliminary findings we adopt today aim to ensure that Alphabet abides by EU rules when it comes to two services widely used by businesses and consumers across the EU, Google Search and Android phones,
EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said in a statement
With these decision, we are simply implementing the law, and providing regulatory certainty both to Apple and to developers,
EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said in a statementThe most consequential decisions that are going to be produced from the noncompliance proceedings are really the remedies,
said Ribera MartínezThe Commission would face a lot of criticism if it was perceived to be taking a deliberately ‘soft’ approach for geopolitical reasons,
says Zach Meyers, director of research at the Centre on Regulation in Europe think tankIt is difficult to see how a light-touch approach to DMA enforcement would help,
said Meyers of the Centre on Regulation in Europe[The ... The DMA] does not target U.S. companies,
European commissioners Teresa Ribera and Henna Virkkunen wrote to a U.S. lawmaker earlier this month, stressingWe hope the Commission will come out swinging to put Apple and Google back into compliance,
she saidEmasculating the DMA would undermine the EU’s promise of providing a more predictable and rules-based order than the U.S. does,
he saidToday’s decisions wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple’s ability to innovate for users in Europe and forcing us to give away our new features for free to companies who don’t have to play by the same rules. It’s bad for our products and for our European users. We will continue to work with the European Commission to help them understand our concerns on behalf of our users.”
In a statement following the EU’s preliminary decision on the specification proceedings, Apple said
The Commission’s findings require us to make even more changes to how we show certain types of Search results, which would make it harder for people to find what they are looking for and reduce traffic to European businesses,
claimed Oliver Bethell, Google’s Senior Director of Competition, in the postLet me be clear: Our main focus is creating a culture of compliance with the Digital Markets Act,
Ribera added[I ... I]f we can’t protect our users from scammy or malicious links that take our users outside of the secure Play environment, then the Commission is effectively forcing us to choose between a closed model and an unsafe one,
Bethell contendsThere is no way for us to support all the functionality that Apple Watch has access to. It’s impossible for a 3rd party smartwatch to send text messages, or perform actions on notifications (like dismissing, muting, replying) and many, many other things,
Migicovsky wroteWe will keep engaging with the Commission and comply with its rules. But today’s findings now increase the risk of an even worse experience for Europeans,
Bethell added