Violating anti-geoblocking rules

The fruity-cargo cult Apple is again finding itself in trouble with the European Union over its geo-blocking antics.

Anti-trust

The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Corning, focusing on the company’s popular Gorilla Glass product. Gorilla Glass dominates the mobile phone and tablet cover glass market.

First to go down under the Digital Markets Act (DMA),

Apple will soon become the first company to incur a fine for violating the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

While US dithers

According to Lawfare's cybersecurity newsletter, the European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to introducing liability for software products.

Cook calls him to make him promise to protect Apple's lunch money

Former US president Donald Trump claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to get the EU to stop picking on the poor little cargo cult.

Brexit means copying Europe

The British government has now begun a consultation on whether it should follow the EU and India in implementing USB-C as the default charging port for all consumer devices.

Zuckerberg can’t use your lunch pictures forever

The European Union's top court ruled on Friday that social networks like Facebook cannot indefinitely use people's information for ad targeting.

Preorders weaker than predecessor

Enthusiasm over the new iPhone 16 series with a new shutter button and unclear Apple Intelligence (AI) strategy led to much lower iPhone 16 preorder numbers compared to the iPhone 15 generation. The numbers are lower in the EU as well as worldwide.

Sniffs of anti-trust

 Meta is encountering obstacles while striving to comply with the European Union's stringent online competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

It's not an acquisition

EU watchdogs might be prepared to let the software King of the World, Microsoft, get away with its €12.15 billion investment in OpenAI.