In its reply to the General Court, CISPE argued in a statement that Broadcom's aim to increase EBITDA by 60 to 80 percent in three years in a market growing 5-8 percent annually could only be achieved through "aggressive monetization of VMware's locked-in customer base through steep price rises and forced bundling." It thereby created "a powerful financial incentive to extract cash rapidly from VMware's installed base," CISPE said.
The ATT feature lets users ask third party apps which they're using on Apple's mobile platform, iOS, not to track their digital activity for targeted advertising. The framework was introduced back in 2021, ushering in a new set of iOS pop-up banners that let users refuse an app permission to track their digital activity, including across websites and other apps on the phone.