South Korea Targets Apple Over New App Store Regulation (reuters.com) 9
Apple was on a collision course with South Korea on Friday over new requirements that it stop forcing app developers to use its payment systems, with a government official warning of a possible investigation into the iPhone maker's compliance. From a report: The development comes after South Korea amended the Telecommunication Business Act in August to try to curb the tech majors' market dominance and stop the big app store operators such as Apple and Alphabet's Google from charging commissions on in-app purchases. The law went into effect last month but Apple had told the South Korean government that it was already complying and did not need to change its app store policy, a Korea Communications Commission (KCC) official in charge of the matter told Reuters. "This goes against the purpose of the amended law," the official said, requesting anonymity as the KCC was still in talks with Apple on compliance.
Re:Removing hateful content is not news (Score:4, Insightful)
I think you meant to troll the Koran in China story instead?
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You honestly have to admire the chutzpah.
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The US court ruling is going to add some serious context to their efforts to fight this and other similar laws around the world. Their intransigence is somewhat dangerous to them, as it encourages countries to be much stricter with them. They might up strictly complying with more detailed rules than they were first told to comply with.
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First of all, the whole narrative of "but internationally" is superbly irrelevant for national courts. Especially national courts in nations as nationalist as South Korea. At best you can hope for "but these people with same fundamental legal system from which ours came from", i.e. something like UK-US link. Beyond that, it's going to be laughter at best, and contempt of court at worst.
In case of South Korea, nationalism actually is the key. They're going for Apple at least in part because Samsung et al want it. Other half being that there are a several major publishers of games on mobiles that are Korean that are really tired of the fact that this foreign company takes more profit from their games than they do.
While we are having similar arguments in both US and EU right now, they come from somewhat different perspectives of monopolisation of markets. Different culture and all.
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>While we are having similar arguments in both US and EU right now, they come from somewhat different perspectives of monopolisation of markets. Different culture and all.