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Apple Subject to ‘Special Abuse Control’ Says German Antitrust Regulator
Bundeskartellamt president Andreas Mundt said that Apple’s economic position is not adequately controlled by competition, giving German authorities the right to step in.
Apple has an economic position of power across markets which gives rise to a scope of action that is not sufficiently controlled by competition. Based on its mobile end devices such as the iPhone, Apple operates a wide-ranging digital ecosystem which is of great importance to competition not only in Germany, but also throughout Europe and the world. With its proprietary products iOS and the App Store, Apple holds a key position for competition as well as for gaining access to the ecosystem and Apple customers. This decision enables us to specifically take action against and effectively prohibit anti-competitive practices.
In the press release, the Bundeskartellamt says that Apple’s two billion device active install base gives it a “strong power” to create rules for third parties, with Apple exerting control over customers and access to customers. Combined with Apple’s resources, Apple is in a “position of power” that makes it subject to the aforementioned “special abuse control.” This designation is valid for five years.
German regulators are already looking into Apple’s ad tracking rules and App Tracking Transparency, a measure that requires apps to get explicit user consent before tracking them. The investigation began in 2022 with the aim of determining whether Apple’s anti-tracking technology is anti-competitive.
At the current time, the Bundeskartellamt has not decided whether to initiate further proceedings against Apple. Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook, and Amazon have previously been subject to these rules. A 2021 amendment to the German Competition Act provided the Bundeskartellamt with the power to “intervene early and more effectively” to prevent major tech companies from engaging in anti-competitive practices.
This article, “Apple Subject to ‘Special Abuse Control’ Says German Antitrust Regulator” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Syd Barrett to be subject of new documentary, Have You Got It Yet?
The forthcoming film – which includes interviews with Pink Floyd, members of The Who, Blur and more – offers a “portrait of one of the most iconic cult figures in music”
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Judge orders release of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed
A Baltimore judge has overturned the conviction of Adnan Syed, reports The Associated Press. The 41-year-old had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. In 2014, his case attracted international interest after it was chronicled by former Baltimore Sun reporter Sarah Koenig in the first season of the hit podcast Serial.
Koenig spent more than a year investigating the specifics of Syed’s case, focusing in particular on the conduct of his lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez. In 2019, Maryland’s highest court found Gutierrez had failed to properly investigate an alibi witness but voted against granting Syed’s request for a retrial. However, prosecutors recently recommended that a judge grant him a new trial, noting the state had lost “confidence in the integrity of the conviction.” With Monday’s decision, the state has 30 days to decide whether to move forward with a new trial or drop the case entirely.
“This is not a podcast for me,” said Young Lee, the brother of Hae Min Lee, during Monday’s hearing. He said his family felt “betrayed” and “blindsided” by the state’s motion to vacate Syed’s conviction. “Whenever I think it’s over, and it’s ended, it always comes back,” he added.
Following the decision, Serialannounced it would air a new episode on Tuesday morning. In the years since its widely successful first season, Serial has produced a series of spinoffs, including S-Town and The Trojan Horse Affair. More broadly, it’s safe to say the true crime genre and podcasting more generally have never been more popular – even if the series was never quite able to replicate the success of its first season.
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This school subject, folder color Twitter debate is perfect internet fodder
The internet loves to debate, argue, and flat-out fight. Twitter’s core function might just be maintaining The Discourse — aka scores of people getting angry at one another about mostly silly things.
Recently a topic arose that might just be the perfect Twitter discussion. At its core it’s nonsensical. There’s no correct answer. There is no way to even win the argument. It’s simply an opportunity to say your thoughts and then disagree with others’ thoughts. It’s a pretty basic tweet. It simply asks which color folder goes with which subject in school. The choices are red, yellow, blue, and green and history, science, English, and math, respectively.
The tweet, first posted last week, set off an unending firestorm of debate and an endless thread of answers.
For what it’s worth my answers and justifications are as follows:
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History: yellow. The history channel is yellow. It just makes sense.
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Math: red. Math is harsh and logical and red is a harsh color.
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Science: green. Plants are green. Grass is green. Science is…kind of about studying the world? I don’t know.
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English: blue. I don’t know. English just seems blue to me.
There were some people who agreed with me.
There were, of course, lots of people who disagreed. Because of course they did! This is pure nonsense.
It caught on so much that the freaking Today show even got involved.
This folder color thing is an almost too perfect example of the internet works. Sure, it’s very silly — and often the internet is dark, scary, and awful — but it’s instructive nonetheless. It’s a debate for debate’s sake. It is arguing just to argue, with no hope of winning a thing. Nobody will change their mind. It is passing the time. Everyone is right. Everyone is wrong. Everyone it shouting into the void, certain for them it will answer back somehow.