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EU's latest demand on Apple about geolocking is unforgivably naive
With all respect it seams to be that William Gallagher is misunderstanding what the European Union here is working towards.
These are not demands for how Apple and others will need to act on the international stage, but purely how Apple needs to follow the ground principal of harmonic rules within the EU inner market which aims are to make it easier to move, work and live within the EU/ EEA inner market.These rules have been in place for decades and yet Apple and others have chosen to ignore them. I am very happy to see that the EU is finally going after these issues. What is the meaning of having rules if they are not being followed?
Can you for instance imagine if you as an American would be denied by Apple and others to bring the Apple content you have purchased in California with you to Florida? That Apple would demand that you had to purchase the content again, like they do with me and my content which I have purchased during the past 20 years from iTunes (movies and music)?
During these 20 years I've moved from Norway, to Germany and to the UK. These are daily issues many Europeans are facing as the EU has changed into one large open market where people are allowed to move freely around. And can you imagine if Apple and others demanded that you had to use a credit card from California for online purchases simply because you live in California? What if you move to an other state? These are the kind of issues Europeans have had to deal with from Apple and others for the past 30 years or so. -
EU planning second try at uniform digital wallet for ID, payments
entropys said:I guess the real issue here is if ordinary citizens of these 27 countries want their identity information controlled by Brussels instead of more directly accountable politicians and bureaucrats.I would not. And I doubt the citizens in those countries will get any say at all on the matter.Well, I am one of these European citizens and I am originally from a small European country which never managed to implement good functional technology. Quite the opposite. And to this date this country mostly uses its own crappy solutions, which means that everyday tasks like logging into my national bank account or government service portal, are very unstable, takes forever if they don't log out with a timeout, requires me to always carry around my physical passcode token and doesn't work at all about 25% of the times, so I need to try to log in several times to get in and use the services :-/ Isn't this just ridicules in 2021?So yes, I am very much in favour of these advanced, secure and user friendly Pan-European standards which makes life better and easier for all of us. Thank you, EU!