A final point on which US judges differ from the European Commission: they don't want to (or even can) play whack-a-mole on compliance. So the result of Apple minimally/formally complying (or not even that) is different from the EU: Apple must now allow linking out without *any* commission fee.

Maybe Shoemaker was the last App Store exec who was willing to seriously question the 30% fee (link). Many notable observers who are usually sympathetic to Apple have meanwhile questioned its extraction-at-all-costs strategy (e.g., Ben Thompson, John Gruber).

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Now that I've finished reading, it's difficult to argue Schiller really defended developer interests. He is, also according to the judge, one of the few at Apple who actually read the judgment but, while being on "team no commission", he did want to make it very difficult for developers to link out.

The order exposes an internal battle of financial interests (Maestri) vs developer interests (Schiller), with the CEO (Cook) picking the first side. I'm afraid Apple's erosion of developer goodwill will harm it sooner than later—also financially.

Apparently, Meta also considers itself likely to win the case, offering "only" $1B to settle it.

Interesting reporting by @wsj.com at www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I'm trying Ecosia on mobile (Bing on desktop) and find its results noticeably worse.. I used DuckDuckGo on desktop & mobile before and found it fine though perhaps slightly inferior - that was a while ago though, it probably improved. Have only used Brave's browser before.

And hey, we’re here on Bluesky, not Twitter! But I agree that quite a lot has to happen before such switching.

Hence my reference to lock-in earlier; there are certainly factors that make platforms less sensitive to leaving and hence user interest. We go into how platforms can turn their back on users in this paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.....

To keep them from leaving! In that sense, the platform has an interest in satisfying the users’ interest.

Fair point. This was written a while ago and I can’t say my confidence in this statement grew since. But platforms do need to serve the interests of all user groups, incl consumers, even if lock-in can temper that.

Or should we look at quality-adjusted prices? Definitely an argument to be made that you get more out of an hour of HBO than an hour of Netflix

Those with an interest in competition/AI might want to take a look at my chapter: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Thanks @megangray.bsky.social! No paper on SSRN just yet, but you can find the conference draft linked here: kgi.georgetown.edu/events/dma-a....