Apple indicated that the failure to review the Digital Markets Law may push the company to stop the distribution of some of its products and services within the 27 European Union countries.

This warning came in an official document submitted by the American company as part of its participation in the audit process that the Commission is conducting for legislation, which came into effect three years ago, with the aim of limiting the dominance of giant technological companies that work as “gateway guards” for digital markets.

Apple expressed its deep concern that the requirements of the law, especially those related to the “inter -employment” between the various platforms (the ability of applications and systems to exchange data safely and automatically regardless of the geographical, political or regulatory limits), forces the company to break the integrated model that its products adopt, which leads to:

· The deterioration of the user experience: Create a less smooth and more complex experience.

· New security risksOpen gaps that may allow competing parties to access sensitive data.

· Delaying innovationDisabled new features that users were waiting for.

Apple revealed that the law has already forced it to postpone the launch of several features in the European Union countries, including:

Expressive translation service via Airbods.

IPhone display feature on laptops.

And the company warned that “the list of late features in the European Union will probably increase, which means that the experience of our European Union users on Apple products will be more in line with others.”

Apple also accused the European Commission of creating “unfair competition”, noting that the rules are not applied in the same way to its direct competitors, such as “Samsung”, the largest resource for smartphones in the European market.

The company gave an explicit example of the security challenges imposed by the law, noting that one of its requirements requires a guarantee of headphones from other brands with the iPhone phones. She explained that this requirement prevents the launch of an immediate translation service in the European Union, because competing companies may enable competing companies to access the data of the conversations, which constitutes a huge “privacy problem”.

It invited a company Apple In the summary of its evaluation to Either cancel the entire digital market law, or at least replace it with more appropriate legislation.

Although it did not specify exactly which products have stopped distribution, she indicated that a basic product is like “Apple Hour”And that was launched a decade ago, perhaps it would not have seen the light if the law was valid at the time.

This confrontation is the latest in a series of conflicts between Apple The European Commission, which previously included imposing a fine of its value 500 million euros The company has due to accusations of anti -competition practices related to the application store.

Apple has concluded its criticism of accusing the lawists of the law of encouragement Non -honorable competition“Instead of competition through innovation, successful companies are already distorting the law to suit their own agendas – either to collect more data from European Union citizens, or to obtain Apple technology for free.”

The company also expressed concern about the protection of users, noting that the law allowed the appearance of applications, such as pornographic content, in alternative application stores on iPhone, applications that Apple has always prevented from its official store because of the risks it poses, especially for children.

The European Commission has not commented on these statements yet.

Source: The Guardian

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