At this point, I am convinced EU fines American tech companies for fun.
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That being said in that specific case this is odd because in general:
- EU (albeit not France) gives plenty of time to OS developers to adapt and often talks to them directly when they are as big as Apple
- The timing makes it look like with a different less disruptive administration it would've went differently
In any case US companies abusing any possible loophole for paying pennies for decades in Europe don't get any sympathy by me.
Like, do we want protections from corporations or to continue to let them stomp on using hopes they become the corporation one day?