Change anti-monopoly laws, or may stop shipping products to EU: Apple
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New York: iPhone maker Apple has said it will stop shipping some products and services to European Union unless the European Commission repeals its Digital Markets Act, The Guardian reported.
The Silicon Valley company said that technology legislation will cause what it said worse experience for Apple users from security risks alongside ‘disrupting the seamless way Apple products work together’.
The anti-monopoly legislation, according to the report, seeks to regulate what the report said regulate the gatekeeper power of largest digital companies such as search engines, app providers and messaging services.
Hitting out at the commission’s review of the legislation, Apple said the demand for ‘interoperability with non-Apple products and services’ delayed its launch of features including live translation via AirPods and ‘mirroring iPhone screens on to laptop’.
‘The DMA means the list of delayed features in the EU will probably get longer, and our EU users’ experience on Apple products will fall further behind,’ it reportedly said.
Meanwhile, Apple accused Brussels of causing ‘unfair competition’ having the rules not been applied to EU’s largest smartphone provider ‘Samsung’.
The Digital Markets Act wants Apple to ensure headphones of other brands work with iPhones, which the American company termed as a block on releasing its live translation service in the EU.
Alongside seeking to repeal Digital Markets Act and replace it with a more appropriate legislation, Apple did not reveal the products that will not be available in the EU.