This might be naive me, but companies should be allowed to defend themselves in an investigation but should have no rights whatsoever to prevent one from occuring. If they fight the mere start of an investigation that hard, this sure is a "where there's smoke there's fire ' situation.
I agree although I think this is more around whether the CMA has the legal authority to investigate Apple. If Apple could show it doesn't, it means it saves itself time, money and effort having to comply with the requirement of the investigation.
I do agree with you, but it's also fair that if Apple think this is overreach they should be able to stop it. I think they should pay the costs though if the courts think this is gaming the system; the CMA investigating a competition issue is hardly unusual.
Personally I think the CMA is doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Jurisdiction is such a bullshit manufactured part of the legal system. It just limits the number of people that need to be corrupted for an entity to get away with shit.
The only important thing is to have protections in place to ensure an investigation isn't an avenue for harassment, intimidation, or corporate espionage.
I think maybe you're saying the same thing, but IMHO they should be able to defend themselves against prosecution, not against an investigation per se.
the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK wants a market investigation to determine if Apple’s policy against allowing cloud gaming services on the App Store is anticompetitive.
What is disallowed exactly? GeForce Now has an app store app, and I've used it for cloud gaming.
edit: oh, probably if the apps have their own stores or included games and Apple can't take a percentage of those sales. GeForce Now doesn't sell games.