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foregoneconclusion said:

Apple was fined $1.8 billion for the complete fantasy that Apple Music harmed streaming competition so it’s understandable that they would be slow to roll out certain features in the EU. 

Note that Vestager is implying that Apple’s version of AI is somehow anticompetitive even though it isn’t available anywhere in the world at the moment and AI products are flooding the overall martket.

phillyfanatic09 said:

kiltedgreen said:

9secondkox2 said:

The EU is an extortion racket. Change my mind. 

The US is a violent force destabilising peace across the world to suit its own ends. Change my mind.

Nope. You have already made it up. Perhaps you would enjoy living in Ukraine under the benevolence of Vladimir Putin.

jimh2 said:

How are they going to pay their fair share? No one rides for free. 

crowley said:

williamh said:

crowley said:

rob53 said:

EU is a dictatorship, plain and simple. At this point Apple needs to seriously tell the EU to GTH. The US needs to triple import duties on EU goods effectively shutting the EU down. The US should also reduce exports to the EU and cut off any financial support. 

Weird how the EU dictatorship has so many elections.  

Calling the EU a dictatorship seems way overblown, but still, when did the European public get to vote for the EU Council president?  European Commission president?  How about the European parliament president?  That's right, there aren't public elections for those positions.  

 https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/leadership/presidents_en

So?  The Commission President and the Parliament President are elected by the Parliament, who are elected by the public.  The Council President is elected by the heads of state of all the members, who have also been elected by the public.

That's representative democracy, even if it's not direct democracy.

Mike Wuerthele said:

Madbum said:

Joe Biden needs to go. I am sorry but I am not usually political but this guy is ridiculous 

This started two years into the Trump administration.

9secondkox2 said:

Tik tok is basically heavily invasive spyware on behalf of China. 

It literally crawls your entire device and sends the data back home. 

Yikes. 

Good that it is either banned or sold to someone who must comply with consumer protections. 

dewme said:

It does seem like it will be difficult to detect sleep apnea without pulse oximetry because low oxygen sat levels are one of the most important indicators of sleep apnea. I suppose they may be able to detect breathing interruptions, snoring, and wearers gasping to breathe.

Like many others I believe the standoff with Masimo is definitely hurting Apple's customers regardless of who is right or who is wrong at the legal level. We are the ones caught in the middle as long as the lawyers keep fighting. I have no doubt that both parties know very well that real people are losing out here. However, at the end of the day they are both firmly committed to placing profits and principles over people. That's just the way the world actually works.

M68000 said:

This is all well and good.  But,  I’m really disappointed by iOS 18 so far.  Initially,
my iPhone 15 seemed okay but after a few days things seem slow on WiFi.  In general, there are a ton of reports about sluggish phones and non responsive screens. How could this have been approved for release???  Have been using iPhones since iPhone 1,  iOS 18 is likely the worst yet and the AI features are not even enabled for phones that support that.  Really looking forward to Apple to redeem itself and fix iOS 18.   iOS 17.7 was great and now I regret updating 

I’m assuming the hectic pace of keeping up with Wall Street schedule expectations is putting real strain on the development teams.  Is that right @Tim Cook?  So,  your company releases a half baked OS version instead of waiting for it to be ready and better tested?  And, you are okay with that Tim ??  Would be curious to know how
many people are in the QA team and how much hardware and variations have been tested OR not.