FSF Europe condemns Apple's DMA noncompliance

The Free Software Foundation Europe hassubmitted a joint position to the European Commission (EC), claiming that Applehas failed to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). This is the lawthat requires Apple to support alternative application stores on the devices itmakes.

Apple's unfair behaviour against Free Software highlights the critical need tomonitor the implementation of the DMA. The FSFE collaborated with F-Droid, theAppFair project, and other interoperability experts to scrutinize Apple's DMAcompliance, and it's impact on Free Software. Since then, we coordinated severalexpert workshops with stakeholders,discussed with regulators in FOSDEM, hadofficial meetings with the EC's DMA team, and submitted acomprehensive positionto the EC detailing several problematic elements in the Apple compliance thatwill harm the Free Software.