An EC Fine and Tariff Uncertainty's Back Early - MOSK: 04.24.2025

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Ken Ray

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4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

- EC Fines Apple Roughly Half-a-Billion Dollars Over DMA Violations - Apple, Meta, and White House Not Pleased with EC Fines - Senator Warren Has Question for Tim Cook About Tariff Exemptions - Is Trump Pausing the 90-Day Tariff Pause? - Goldman, UBS, Wells Fargo Cut Apple Targets - Reminder: Apple 2QFY25 Earnings Set for 1 May - Counterpoint: Q1 Mac Shipments Grew 17% YoY - Amsterdam Apple Store Left Open While Closed - A look at last minute tax scams and how to avoid them PLUS the technological scapegoat in the Signal snafu on Checklist No. 419 - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	talking to an old friend of mine yesterday who said their spouse had to go to an Apple
0:03.4	store to get something taken care of with an iPhone. I think one of their kids and like
0:07.0	broken it or something. So there's the spouse at the Apple store and for some reason I popped
0:13.3	to mind. I haven't seen or talked to the spouse and golly close to 20 years is my guess. But anyway, there they are at the Apple Store, and they're like, hey, I know somebody who does
0:25.8	a daily Apple News podcast, and takes them a minute to remember my name.
0:31.5	They actually had to message my friend, but they do, and they say to the person at the Apple
0:36.1	store, yeah, it's Ken Ray, MacOS Ken.
0:40.6	And the person at the Apple Store actually listens to this show.
0:45.1	In fact, they were upset that I was on a week off last week.
0:50.3	So, this is a message for that person at that Apple store.
0:56.4	Hi!
1:04.0	And, you know, hi to the rest of you as well.
1:09.9	The E.C. finds Apple, sort of.
1:13.4	TerraF uncertainty comes back early.
1:16.3	An analyst lower target ahead of Apple earnings.
1:20.2	It is Thursday, the 24th of April 2025.
1:23.2	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from macOS Ken.
1:28.4	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by people like you.
1:33.3	Patrons through Patreon.
1:36.0	Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash macOScan.
1:44.7	The European Commission has founded both Apple and Meta and could have been a lot worse for both of them.
1:52.5	The piece from 9 to 5 Mac says meta was fined 200 million euros, while Apple was fined 500 million, roughly $570 million U.S. under the Digital Markets Act.
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