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Comrade Tim Cook doing some thankless work against the banker cretins.  

I intend to pronounce it "cheeto" and their ain't squat god or man can do about it

chasm said:

ggwill0 said:

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. 

Ah, yes! They’re just fighting this for the little guys! They’re definitely not doing it for their own financial benefit alone!

I like the idea of their smart bolt because you can simultaneously avoid ruining the look and feel of a door and not have to deal with rekeying a cylinder to keep your houses doors on the same key.

Unfortunately, bluetooth transport is a death sentence for smart devices. You will not be able to reliably trust this with automations and it will more often have a big red "No Response" label under it in the Home app. 

It is sad that such a well engineered product has such a debilitating weakness. Hopefully they'll add thread support in an updated model or just go wifi.