Let's hope France investigates Carrefour for giving preference to house brands and force them to give others the same deal.
While I see where you are coming from and can agree, I'd argue the situation is not quite the same. If you don't want to buy at Carrefour, you can buy at Monoprix, Leclerc, System U, Lidle, Aldi, etc and get
the same products.
If you're an advertiser, y
ou cannot go see anyone else but apple to advertise on apple devices (at least not that I know of, please tell me if i'm wrong). So I think it's only fair to make sure Apple applies the same rules regarding advertising to itself.
And again, for anyone passing by this comment, France is not probing Apple's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Feature per se. In fact, it refused to do so if you read the article. So yes the EU and France are very much for tracking transparency and data protection.
That's why Apple thanked France. It's just looking to make sure apple applies the same rules to its own services so it's not anti competitive.
Now, I can agree this can open up the usual debate of wether apple can do what it wants on its own product or not. But that's an entirely different topic.