Yay! Please stick with this, EU! I hope this spreads globally. 🥂
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I honestly don’t get it. It’s their product. Why are entire countries getting involved in how they design and distribute their own IP?
It is in the public interest to regulate companies. This is the best tool we have to promote a healthy market with fair competition, and to ensure companies make safe products that aligns with the public interest.
Perhaps instead of watering down one company, maybe all the others should be inspired to make better quality products that can compete with them.
Because- and this is only my opinion, allowing governments to control how a company manages their IP is a slippery slope to go down.
But what if a company is too powerful and has an unfair advantage in the market?
For example: Say a company is able to make excellent ear buds – the best in the market. Apple obviously doesn't want to loose out on AirPods profit, so they then decide to deliberately make it a poor user experience to use other ear buds on Macs and Iphones. Now it is impossible for better ear buds to compete with AirPods because Apple abuses an unfair market advantage. Furthermore, this heavily decentivices other companies from even entering the market.
I see your point about the dangers of allowing governments to overregulate companies, but it is also dangerous to let companies freely do whatever they want. Share holders will happily screw over consumers and society for a tiny increase in profit.
In my opinion, right now there exists too many unhealthy markets – especially in technology – and I would like to see more regulations akin to what EU is doing. US is dropping the ball hard on this one.
I get what you’re saying, and while I don’t have a better solution to offer- I just know that the solution they’re offering now is a bad idea. It’s opening the doors to govt/nation controlled IP.
And that is bad for everyone.
I have no doubt the EU won't have much mercy for American corporations going* forward.
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We don’t need no friends, allies or influence when we can be bullying, a child’s concept of tough, looking up to other dictators like Putin and Erdogan. Im sure all it will take is loud threats of widespread tariffs and a stable Genius who’s “great” at deals.
“Coincidentally” Apple might make sizable ~~bribes~~ independent donations to support the free and open re-election of The fuhrer
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When apple announced messaging would be cross platform nobody else adopted it. Any idea why?
Oh yeah one reason: Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU (2024)
In the eu literally nobody is using iMessage, so it doesn't fall under dma laws.
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Hopefully this actually leads to something lasting, but I don't have high hopes considering how Europe is getting dragged atm
I mean the EU made them allow app stores but Apple made a complete mockery of them by requiring their rubber stamp and charging "only" 27% fee and the EU is just letting them get away with that so yeah, I have little faith.
There isn't really any getting away with. If what Apple does is within the law then the EU can't prevent it. I'm sure somebody is looking into preventing Apple from doing it, but propper legislation takes time.
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Maybe Nintendo, Sony and MS will be next?
I want a 3rd party store on all my consoles, why can’t I?
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Finally. We all about to see better prices and more features. If this ends in lower app store fees, its a massive win for every app company in the world!
Most every major company tries to build a walled garden. Apple does so via apps and services, services like netflix do by making sure you can’t watch shows on any other service (arr!), or even something as simple as cordless tools that have proprietary batteries and chargers where it gets really expensive to have to buy different batteries.
Most every major company isn't entrenched in people's lives as deeply as apple is though. If I want to leave Netflix it's as easy as switching subscriptions. If I want to leave Apple I need months of migration and multiple product replacements.
Or at least that's what it looks like to someone who has avoided Apple their whole life, it was apparent to me as a teen that the walled garden was a trap. The iPhone and iPhone 3g where the only and last peices of apple hardware I've ever owned.
You’re right on all counts. It is not cheap and easy to migrate away from apple, and some apps may not have an equivalent.
I’ve been anti-apple most of my life for multiple reasons, and I still am, however my work uses apple products for the employees so it just made sense to have my own as well. I deeply recognize the walled garden Apple has created, and the only products of theirs we use are those associated with the mobile devices. We buy nothing else apple; no laptops, no desktops, no backup, TV, etc.
And also getting using to an entirely new UI and OS
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