It seems like Apple's legal team is
constantly embroiled in a pitched battle of some sort, but this weekend they might get to relax -- citing recent iPhone policy changes, the European Commission's decided to stop breathing down their necks. Though the EU originally
joined the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in investigating why Cupertino chose to
block third-party dev tools and ads earlier this year, the fact that Apple
recently relaxed both restrictions (and created a repair program for iPhones purchased abroad) satisfied European regulators. "The Commission intends to close the investigations into these matters," it wrote earlier today. There's no guarantee that the US powers-that-be will exercise similar leniency, of course, but we wouldn't be surprised -- even inside Apple, the DoJ's got
other fish to fry.
