Fork the Apple devices like every other consumer device in the world, Apple and price accordingly one world one Apple device is over.
a) regional Apple hardware variants are very much a thing, and have been at least since the 2007 iPhone.
b) none of this stuff has the slightest to do with hardware. I really don't get what all this bullshit whining about "forking" this or that, or regional versions is all about: It's all software!
Enabling or disabling software features regionally is trivial, and done all the time — by Apple.
That's what they get for telling an American company what to do...
Hell yeah! Why doesn’t every country just submit to anything Merka wants and bends over and takes it! YA-HOOO!
LOL.
The EU has the right to create regulations as they see fit. Apple has the right to not include some features that would be compromised by EU mandates in the EU.
This is not a problem. One or more market and/or political forces will act to resolve this conflict, though that may take some time.
To be clear, I think that if Apple sincerely believes current EU mandates compromise user security, it should not offer those features in the EU. It’s not “punishment,” it’s part of the company’s core value to protect user security. I don’t think it has anything to do with Apple wanting to “punish” the EU — their money is just as good as anyone else’s.
If European users feel strongly enough that they want those features, they will reform the EU to allow companies like Apple and Microsoft (not you, Google) to prioritize user security and privacy. This may all take a long time, but a happy (or at least acceptable) medium will eventually be achieved.
The EU is just Germany deciding they can get a better deal away from being functionally defunct and irrelevant. Of course, I don't know if that will happen since the EU has granted Germany financial dominion over continental Europe they never could have imagined achieving militarily.
That's what they get for telling an American company what to do...
Hell yeah! Why doesn’t every country just submit to anything Merka wants and bends over and takes it! YA-HOOO!
LOL.
The EU has the right to create regulations as they see fit. Apple has the right to not include some features that would be compromised by EU mandates in the EU.
This is not a problem. One or more market and/or political forces will act to resolve this conflict, though that may take some time.
To be clear, I think that if Apple sincerely believes current EU mandates compromise user security, it should not offer those features in the EU. It’s not “punishment,” it’s part of the company’s core value to protect user security. I don’t think it has anything to do with Apple wanting to “punish” the EU — their money is just as good as anyone else’s.
If European users feel strongly enough that they want those features, they will reform the EU to allow companies like Apple and Microsoft (not you, Google) to prioritize user security and privacy. This may all take a long time, but a happy (or at least acceptable) medium will eventually be achieved.
The EU is just Germany deciding they can get a better deal away from being functionally defunct and irrelevant. Of course, I don't know if that will happen since the EU has granted Germany financial dominion over continental Europe they never could have imagined achieving militarily.
I love it. Well said.
Wow. Don’t tell that to our right-wing parties. They’re campaigning on the idea that we’re financing the entire EU and footing everybody’s else‘s bills.
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b) none of this stuff has the slightest to do with hardware. I really don't get what all this bullshit whining about "forking" this or that, or regional versions is all about: It's all software!
Enabling or disabling software features regionally is trivial, and done all the time — by Apple.