Apple intends to challenge punitive EU antitrust penalty

What this essentially signifies

In principle, these revisions indicate that applications will be vended through various rival outlets. Naturally, the actual scenario will not unfold in that manner. Certain outlets may transpire to be laden with malware and schemes to extract money; some might peddle illicit or unethical material; others could eventually exhibit a deficiency in customer, privacy, or security assistance protocols; developers may exploit the system to disintegrate the user interface.

Over time, we will observe certain outlets crumbling, succumbing to deceit, or shutting down operations, leading to a lack of clear recourse for customer reimbursement or app sustainability. Ultimately, there will be one or two dominant outlets, alongside Apple, all of which will be under the ownership of conglomerates instead of emerging European tech enterprises.

The latter scenario is improbable and even if it materializes, it would be restricted to specific sectors. Amid these unavoidable transformations, it will be Apple Support that customers reach out to initially when they encounter issues, even if the accountability lies with the third-party outlet. This may be construed as a positive development, but personally, I am skeptical about it.

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