Apple (AAPL) lawyer Daniel Beard told the European Union’s General Court that the Digital Markets Act “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens” and is at odds with Apple’s rights in the marketplace, Samuel Stolton of Bloomberg reports. Apple challenged the law on three fronts: EU obligation to make rival software work on Apple technology, the decision to put the App Store under its rules, and a decision to probe if iMessage should face the same rules. EU commission lawyer Paul-John Loewenthal argued Apple’s “absolute control” over the iPhone allowed the company to generate “supernormal profits in complimentary markets where its competitors are handicapped and cannot compete with it on an equal footing.”
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