The European Union hits Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines, first under digital rules
apnews.com
European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.

The commission, which is the EU’s executive arm, also fined Meta Platforms 200 million euros because it forced Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    156B per day? Wtf? That’s 57 trillion per year. That doesn’t seem possible. The EU alone has 17 trillion GDP.

    Nah bro, they had 391B$ in worldwide revenue in 2024. That’s ~1,1B/day in 2025, which means 500M fine would be half a day of revenue.

    I don’t mind fake news about these guys like “Malus pays cartels to force citizens to buy iPhones” or something, but putting numbers like this on stuff is too easy to verify. Make it something like “Malus has a budget to torture the children of workers in China who don’t assemble phones fast enough”. Or “Malus has a suicide budget for workers in Vietnam”.