In court arguments in Apple’s legal challenge of the EU Digital Markets Act before the European General Court, Apple lawyer Daniel Beard said the DMA “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens,” Bloomberg reports. Apple is challenging the DMA in a three-pronged legal argument by claiming the EU cannot compel Apple to make competitors’ hardware work with the iPhone, making the App Store subject to DMA requirements and the prior decision to investigate if iMessage should have been subject to DMA rules. European Commission lawyer Paul-John Loewenthal responded in court by saying Apple “decides who gets it and who can offer their products and services to iPhone users. And through such control, Apple has locked in more than a third of European smartphone users.”Â
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