{"id":746245,"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.com\/index\/746245","title":{"rendered":"Les Fleurs du Mal: France may force \u2018brutal\u2019 Apple to embrace \u2018platform neutrality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/apple-france-appgratis-analysis-431803\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/apple-sign-3289.jpg?w=640&#038;h=480&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=640%2C480\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple France AppGratis Analysis\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center><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's decision to kick AppGratis out of App Store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/11\/apple-france-appstore-idUSL5N0CY42J20130411\">\"extremely brutal and unilateral.\"<\/a>\u00a0France is now planning to demand tighter regulation of \"digital platforms\" 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's biggest developer of software, but its companies are increasingly being reduced to creating applications for platforms owned by Americans.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/apple-france-appgratis-analysis-431803\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Qf9ZscadFIc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":4926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-388d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}