The Digital Markets Act's Impacts on EU Users
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Apple discusses the impacts of the Digital Markets Act on EU users, sparking discussion on the regulation's effects and implications for the tech industry.
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It’s not even that I necessarily disagree with the points. I appreciate them laying out the challenges, and there’s perhaps some kernels of reasonable arguments buried in there, but the rest is just so poorly phrased it would lose a high school debate.
This is a masterclass in a poor argument and a masterclass in poor marketing to boot.
A more proficient writer could have phrased each argument more succinctly and laid out the benefits to the user. As an exercise I considered how one might do so and it’s not hard.
All feelings about the company aside, this is just a bad PR statement.