5/6/2023 0 Comments 2000s photo backdropA correct and nonjudgmental name for the FSA would be Net Licensees' Alliance. In internal communications that came to light as a result of its litigation with Qualcomm, Apple-the FSA's largest member- defined the devaluation of SEPs as a strategic objective and is often criticized for it. Most of the most active contributors to, and investors in, digital standards would disagree with the FSA on what's really "fair." From their vantage point, the FSA is nothing but a SEP Devaluation Alliance. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the Fair Standards Alliance (based in Brussels, but an active filer of statements in the United States, too). On an outrageousness scale from 1 to 10, ACT is clearly a 10 because it untruthfully claims to work for many of the victims of Apple's App Store monopoly abuse. government's Paycheck Protection Program. Against that backdrop, it's just insane that a deceptive-lobbying front for the world's richest corporation benefited from the U.S. and in Brussels, all sorts of Apple- and Google-funded entities claim to speak for entire industries or industry segments while their only objective is to advance the interests of one or both of those platform monopolists.īloomberg deserves credit for its contribution to draining the swamp with the (unsurprising to me, but previously unconfirmed and not obvious to everyone) revelation that ACT | The App Association is actually an Apple Association. The type of swamp that I am particularly concerned about is a transatlantic one: in D.C. "Drain the swamp"-in reference to Washington D.C.-is a bipartisan phrase: it has been used by Republican Presidents Reagan and Trump as well as Democratic Speaker Pelosi.
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