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I know that many people love iMessage. And I know we do prefer using this more privacy-conscious platform than, say, WhatsApp or Telegram. 

cocoaken said:

Why do the European Union care how many users in Europe Apple has? Shouldn't they only care about how many users are in the European Union (which is a subset of Europe), i.e. the territory they have jurisdiction over?

The European Digital Services Act is about to be fully enforced, and as part of the law, Apple has been forced to disclose how many users it has in Europe for the first time in five years.

As part of its mandatory reporting for the European Union Digital Services Act (DSA), Apple has been forced to publish discrete user numbers for online services. The values only apply to Europe.

Perhaps the author decided to use “Europe” in the context of this article as an synecdoche for “European Union”, after mentioning the EU once. 

My largest frustration with some Apple products is that they don’t scale well. Apple Card is available in the US and where else? Canada? What about other markets? I can’t imagine how complicated it must be to roll out something like this to more countries… but then why does it even exist in the first place?
And now I find out in this article that Apple Card is even meh where it exists? Ok…

Do we really need an Apple car? I dislike cars so I may be biased ;-) I understand that for many people cars have a much prominent importance. Nevertheless, I would love Apple to innovate instead of (allegedly) improving something that already exists.

timmillea said:

Not going to happen. The car-loving US culture blind-sides Apple in the pointlessness of this endeavour. 

If real, the Apple Car is the 202X version of “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”