EU throws down gauntlet to Trump with Apple, Google rulings

Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at ICLE, was quoted in this Politico Europe story about recent EU rulings on Apple and Google. Read the full article here.

In order to comply with the DMA, the Commission said Apple will need to give its competitors the same access to a range of existing iPhone functionalities, such as notifications and device-pairing, as it provides to its own devices like the Apple Watch.

The EU executive also stated that the company must overhaul how it communicates with developers.

For Apple, the decision amounts to a “micro-managing” of the future of the iPhone, said Dirk Auer of the International Center for Law & Economics.