{"id":652076,"date":"2013-04-12T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=431803"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:45:51","slug":"les-fleurs-du-mal-france-may-force-brutal-apple-to-embrace-platform-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652076","title":{"rendered":"Les Fleurs du Mal: France may force \u2018brutal\u2019 Apple to embrace \u2018platform neutrality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/apple-france-appgratis-analysis-431803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/apple-sign-3289.jpg?w=640&amp;h=480&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple France AppGratis Analysis\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fleur Pellerin, the French junior minister for digital economy, did not mince words when she addressed the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>)-AppGratis controversy on Thursday. She called Apple&#8217;s decision to kick AppGratis out of App Store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/11\/apple-france-appstore-idUSL5N0CY42J20130411\">&#8220;extremely brutal and unilateral.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0France is now planning to demand tighter regulation of &#8220;digital platforms&#8221; after long seething about the distribution power that American companies such as Apple, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=GOOG\">GOOG<\/a>), Twitter and Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=FB\">FB<\/a>) have gained over the past five years. France is Europe&#8217;s biggest developer of software, but its companies are increasingly being reduced to creating applications for platforms owned by Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/apple-france-appgratis-analysis-431803\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Qf9ZscadFIc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleur Pellerin, the French junior minister for digital economy, did not mince words when she addressed the Apple (AAPL)-AppGratis controversy on Thursday. She called Apple&#8217;s decision to kick AppGratis out of App Store &#8220;extremely brutal and unilateral.&#8221;\u00a0France is now planning to demand tighter regulation of &#8220;digital platforms&#8221; after long seething about the distribution power that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}