标题：谁能拿捏苹果和谷歌的应用商店？
地址：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1z3411J75e?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
素材：
Store wars
Legislationand litigation（诉讼， 打官司） threaten Apple and Google’s profits
Regulators are coming for（上门找某人某物） the app（application） stores
What does it take to rein in（ruin in sth 加强对某物的控制） two of the biggest companies on the planet? A coalition（联合政府，联盟 a...of sth-xx的联合体） of Swedish music-streamers, South Korean politicians and Dutch dating apps（约会app）, apparently（貌似的）.They seem to be succeeding where America’s federal government（联邦政府） has failed: to force changes to the way Apple and Google run their app stores.
The app stores are big businesses, with combined sales last year of $133bn, three times the total five years earlier (see chart). Apple and Google take a cut（份额） of up to（最多） 30%, which is thought to contribute a fifth of the operating profits（主营业务利润） at Apple and Alphabet,Google’s parent company. The 30% levy（税额） began in Apple’s iTunes music store and was copied to its iPhone app store, launched in 2008. As people came to use their phones for gaming, streaming and much else, it evolved into a tax on digital activity（线上活动）. Sign up to（注册=sign up=sign in 登录） a service like Disney+ on your phone and Apple or Google get a cut of your subscription（订阅） for ever. Apps have had to use the tech duo’s（duo n. 一对搭档）+（monopoly 垄断、duopoly 两墙垄断） payment systems, and could not tell users about other ways to sign up.Gripes（=gripe n.牢骚 抱怨） from app developers（开发商） have forced only minor concessions（让步=concede）: last year Apple said it would let them link to external payment pages and Google reduced its fees for subscriptions. Now, though, the dam is bursting.
Last summer South Korea banned app stores from forcing developers to use a particular payment system.In December Dutch regulators made a similar ruling(裁决） against Apple, after acomplaint by developers of dating apps. On March 23rd the trend went global.Google announced a deal with Spotify, a vocal（直言不讳的） critic（批评者） of app-store fees, to let the music-streamer handle its own billing（n. 开具账单）. Google will lower its commission rate（佣金费率）, probably in line with（be in line with sth. 与某物一致） the four-percentage-point cut agreed in SouthKorea. It says more deals are on the way（即将发生）. （be under way 已在进行中）
Google’s magnanimity（宽宏大量） anticipates（先于..做、行动） laws that may require bigger concessions. A bill before（当面） America’s Congress would force app stores to allow payment alternatives（另一种选择） and let apps advertise other ways to sign up. A bigger threat comes from the EU’s Digital Markets Act （法案-已经完成）(DMA), approved in draft（草案） form on March 24th. The colossal（巨大的） bill（法案-还是提议） covers various aspects of digital markets, including app stores. The DMA, whichis on track（be on track 可能会做到某事） to come into force（come/enter into force 法律、规则 开始生效） next year, would force mobile platforms to allow third-party（第三方的） app stores and “sideloading（侧载 不通过官方应用商店而下载安装）” of apps directly from theweb—something Google permits but Apple does not. Offenders（违法者） face fines of up to20% of worldwide revenue and bans on acquisitions（收购）. Breaking open（敲开 砸开） walled gardens, the DMA’s proponents（倡导者 opponent 反对者） say, will strengthen competition.
Apple’s boss, Tim Cook,has warned that sideloading would “destroy the security of the iPhone”. That is a bit much（行为有点过分）: Apple allows sideloading on its desktop computers（台式电脑 laptop 笔记本电脑） without calamity（灾难 calamitous 灾难性的）.But Apple’s much bigger share of the mobile market could make the iPhone a juicier（有吸引力的） target for malware（恶意软件 =malicious software 补充：malcontent 不满的人 malnutrition 营养不良）. And the company trades heavily on（trade on sth. （贬：利用某物）） privacy and security. Despite what the authors of the DMA seem to believe, writes Benedict Evans, a tech analyst, you cannot “pass laws against trade-offs（trade-off 权衡 协调）”.
新词：
litigation（诉讼， 打官司）
coalition（联合政府，联盟 a...of sth-xx的联合体）
apparently（貌似的）
cut（份额）
levy（税额）
subscription（订阅）
duo n. 一对搭档
monopoly 垄断、duopoly 两墙垄断
gripe n.牢骚 抱怨
ruling(裁决）
developers（开发商）
concessions（让步=concede）
vocal（直言不讳的）
Offenders（违法者）
acquisitions（收购）
calamity（灾难 calamitous 灾难性的）
malware（恶意软件 =malicious software 补充：malcontent 不满的人 malnutrition 营养不良）
短语：
a ruling against / in favor of sb 不利于/有利于某人的裁决
coming for（上门找某人某物）
ruin in sth 加强对某物的控制
operating profits（主营业务利润）
digital activity（线上活动）
Sign up to（注册=sign up=sign in 登录）
commission rate（佣金费率）
be in line with sth. 与某物一致
be on track 可能会做到某事
That is a bit much（行为有点过分）
trade on sth. （贬：利用某物）
（trade-off 权衡 协调）
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