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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Big Tech Under Fire: Apple and Google Face Major Antitrust Reckonings

From courtroom drama to criminal charges, the antitrust war against Big Tech just got personal.

๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ์ •์กฐ์ค€: ์• ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€, ๋ฐ˜๋…์  ์‚ฌ๋ฒ• ํญํ’ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ•์ • ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ํ˜•์‚ฌ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋…์  ์ „์Ÿ์ด โ€˜์ •๋ฉด์ถฉ๋Œโ€™๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Apple was found in violation of a federal court order stemming from its legal battle with Epic Games. A judge ruled that the company โ€œwillfully chose not to complyโ€ with required App Store reforms and referred Apple for possible criminal contempt charges.
โ†’ ์—ํ”ฝ๊ฒŒ์ž„์ฆˆ์™€์˜ ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ ํŒจํ•œ ๋’ค์—๋„ ์• ํ”Œ์ด ๋ฒ•์›์˜ ๋ช…๋ น์„ โ€œ๊ณ ์˜๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹คโ€๋Š” ํŒ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜•์‚ฌ์ƒ ๋ฒ•์ •๋ชจ๋… ํ˜์˜๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์— ํšŒ๋ถ€๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meanwhile, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified that a proposed U.S. remedyโ€”forcing Google to share search data with competitorsโ€”would be akin to โ€œde facto divestiture.โ€
โ†’ ํ•œํŽธ, ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ(๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๋ชจํšŒ์‚ฌ)์˜ ์ˆœ๋‹ค ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด CEO๋Š” ๋ฏธ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ โ€˜๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ณต์œ โ€™ ์‹œ์ • ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ โ€œ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋ถ„ํ• โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Criminal Contempt (ํ˜•์‚ฌ์ƒ ๋ฒ•์ •๋ชจ๋…)
    A serious legal offense where a party is accused of undermining the authority of the court.
    โ†’ ๋ฒ•์›์˜ ๊ถŒ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ›ผ์†ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์–ด ํ˜•์‚ฌ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„.

  • Search Data Unbundling (๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ)
    The policy of separating proprietary user data from exclusive corporate control to encourage market access.
    โ†’ ๋…์  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ์กฐ์น˜.

  • Platform Immunity Myth (ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๋ฉด์ฑ… ์‹ ํ™”)
    The longstanding assumption that digital giants can operate beyond traditional law enforcement frameworks.
    โ†’ ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋ฒ• ๊ทœ์ œ์˜ ๋ฐ”๊นฅ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ ์ธ์‹.

  • Structural Remedy (๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์‹œ์ • ์กฐ์น˜)
    Corrective action that alters the core architecture of a companyโ€™s market behavior.
    โ†’ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์‹œ์ • ์กฐ์น˜.

  • Legal Precedent Fracture (๋ฒ•์  ์„ ๋ก€ ํŒŒ๊ดด)
    When enforcement breaks from past leniency and establishes new expectations.
    โ†’ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ด€ํ–‰๊ณผ ๊ด€๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŒ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๊นจ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฒ• ์ง‘ํ–‰ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๋Š” ์ „ํ™˜์ .

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Appleโ€™s clash with the court system is no longer just about feesโ€”itโ€™s now about institutional defiance. By refusing to comply with a clear ruling, Apple is no longer simply defending its business model but challenging the very enforceability of tech regulation. If a trillion-dollar company can ignore a federal order with minimal consequence, what precedent does that set for accountability in the digital economy?
โ†’ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ โ€˜์ œ๋„์  ๋ถˆ๋ณต์ข…โ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตญ๋ฉด์— ์ง„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์› ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์Œ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์• ํ”Œ์€ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ทœ์ œ ์ž์ฒด์˜ ์‹คํšจ์„ฑ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์…ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ 1์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์› ๋ช…๋ น์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ์„ ํ”ผํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์—์„œ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ทœ์ œ์˜ ์„ ๋ก€๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?

At the same time, Googleโ€™s dilemma touches the nerve of platform capitalism: should a firm be forced to dilute its competitive advantage by making core data public? The proposed remedyโ€”forced data sharingโ€”threatens not only Googleโ€™s search monopoly but the very assumption that user data is a proprietary asset. If governments can unbundle data, they might soon regulate algorithms, engagement metrics, or even personalized results.
โ†’ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ์— ์‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€? โ€˜๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ณต์œ โ€™ ์‹œ์ • ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋…์  ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ โ€˜์ž์‚ฐโ€™์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ•ด ์˜จ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์ „์ œ๋ฅผ ํ”๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ฐธ์—ฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Together, Apple and Google are being confronted not just by regulation, but by a new legal imaginationโ€”one that treats data as public infrastructure and platforms as accountable actors in democratic society.
โ†’ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ณต ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋กœ, ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„ ์ฃผ์ฒด๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” โ€˜์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฒ•์  ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅโ€™์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ defy the order (๋ช…๋ น์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค)
โ€œApple defied the order to reform the App Store.โ€
โ†’ โ€œ์• ํ”Œ์€ ์•ฑ์Šคํ† ์–ด ๊ฐœํŽธ ๋ช…๋ น์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ forced breakup in disguise (์œ„์žฅ๋œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ„ํ• )
โ€œGoogle called the data-sharing proposal a โ€˜forced breakup in disguise.โ€™โ€
โ†’ โ€œ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ณต์œ ์•ˆ์„ โ€˜์œ„์žฅ๋œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ„ํ• โ€™์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ above the law (๋ฒ• ์œ„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค, ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋‹ค)
โ€œNo tech company is above the law anymore.โ€
โ†’ โ€œ์ด์ œ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…๋„ ๋ฒ• ์œ„์— ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ crack the walled garden (ํ์‡„๋œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋‹ค)
โ€œEpic cracked the walled garden of Appleโ€™s App Store.โ€
โ†’ โ€œ์—ํ”ฝ์€ ์• ํ”Œ ์•ฑ์Šคํ† ์–ด์˜ ํ์‡„ ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ”๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ show teeth (์ด๋นจ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋‹ค, ์ œ์žฌ์— ๋‚˜์„œ๋‹ค)
โ€œRegulators are finally showing teeth after years of passivity.โ€
โ†’ โ€œ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ์˜จ์ ์ด๋˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์ด ์ด์ œ์•ผ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ œ์žฌ์— ๋‚˜์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Epic Gamesโ€™ legal win has reignited debates over Appleโ€™s platform control. Meanwhile, the DOJโ€™s aggressive stance toward Google marks a turning point in U.S. antitrust enforcement.
โ†’ ์—ํ”ฝ๊ฒŒ์ž„์ฆˆ์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ง€๋ฐฐ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์„ ์žฌ์ ํ™”ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€์˜ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋ฐ ์• ํ”Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์‘์€ ๋ฐ˜๋…์  ์ง‘ํ–‰ ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์ ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea
While Korea passed the "Anti-Google Law" in 2021 restricting app payment monopolies, discussions on enforcement remain limited. U.S. cases may shape local reforms ahead.
โ†’ ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ 2021๋…„ ์ธ์•ฑ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ•์ œ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ฒ•(๊ตฌ๊ธ€๊ฐ‘์งˆ๋ฐฉ์ง€๋ฒ•)์„ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ ์ง‘ํ–‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ง„ํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ •์ฑ… ๊ฐœํŽธ์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Big Techโ€™s era of untouchability is over. From passive hearings to active prosecution, the gloves are coming off.
โ†’ ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ์˜ ๋ฌดํ’์ง€๋Œ€ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… September 10, 2021 โ€“ U.S. District Court issues injunction against Apple's App Store practices โ†’ 2021๋…„ 9์›” 10์ผ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์•ฑ์Šคํ† ์–ด ๊ด€ํ–‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธˆ์ง€ ๋ช…๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.(์• ํ”Œ์ด ์•ฑ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๊ฒฐ์ œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์ฑ…์ด ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ณต์ • ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ฒ•์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จ)

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  1. "Apple Held in Contempt of Court Over App Store Reform" (The Verge, 2024)

  2. "Epic Games v. Apple: Judge Says Apple Lied Under Oath" (Reuters, 2024)

  3. "Googleโ€™s Pichai Pushes Back on Search Data Divestiture Idea" (WSJ, 2024)

  4. "U.S. DOJ Antitrust Trial Against Google Nears Climax" (The New York Times, 2024)

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