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Title: Apple Attacks EU Crackdown in Digital Law's Biggest Court Test

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/163...

Apple lashed out at the European Union's attempts to tame the power of
Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc's Big
Tech antitrust rules. From a report: The iPhone maker's lawyer Daniel Beard
told the General Court in Luxembourg on Tuesday that the Digital Markets Act
"imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens" at odds with Apple's rights in
the EU marketplace. The DMA came onto the EU's books in 2023 and is designed
to clip the wings of the world's largest technology platforms with a slew of
dos and don'ts. But over recent months, the law has also drawn the ire of US
President Donald Trump and plagued EU-US trade talks. Apple -- seen as the
biggest renegade against the EU's crackdown -- challenged the law on three
fronts: EU obligations to make rival hardware work with its iPhone, the
regulator's decision to drag the hugely profitable App Store under the rules,
and a decision to probe whether iMessage should have faced the rules, which
it later escaped.

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