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Apple, Google confirm new EU 'gatekeeper' law applies to them
The point is that it's YOUR CHOICE that keeps you buying Apple products, and the quality of THEIR products.rob53 said:Why does everything have to interoperate? I buy Apple products. I don’t buy Google things. I made a choice to buy Apple-only products. What business does the EU have telling me I have to use, or allow to use, other products? What product has the EU improved? None that I know of. They’re just doing a huge money grab.Not the fact that they make it extremely difficult to choose a different manufacturer's product, even if their products progressively go to shit, because they make it impossible to export the data you've sunk into their services and use it on any other brand's devices.
Because at that point, you don't have a choice but to keep buying their products.
You have to realise that this doesn't apply just to Apple — it applies to ANY manufacturer who might invest less and less into building shittier and shittier products, while holding their customers hostage.
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EU law would let iCloud users transfer their data to rival platforms
This is, for all practical purposes, a meaningless distinction for most people.chasm said:I can usually see at least the underlying intent of the EU regulation frenzy … most of the time … but this one is just stupid IMO.Most of iCloud is *syncing* data, not storing it.
Unless you're paying hundreds upfront for massive storage upgrades on all your devices, iCloud+ IS storage. Only ONE of our Apple devices currently in use in the family (out of ten — three iPhones, four iPads, three Macs) actually has the capacity to store the associated photo library locally.
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Let's get ready to rumble: Zuckerberg agrees to fight Musk in cage match
Money no mek you smart.
Apparently.
What morons.
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EU law requiring easier iPhone battery replacement inches closer to enactment
The individual countries haven’t “ceded control”. We’re not a United States.We’ve centralised a lot of economic bargaining power and business regulation. Because the EU can take it up with corporations that flout our laws, and only needs to do so once, rather than thirty little countries, each individually at risk of being strongarmed by the corporations’ political allies, or overrun by lobbyists with deep pockets.FWIW, they’re not dictating it to Apple. They’re dictating it to every bit player and major manufacturer, worldwide, who wants to sell here.Just like the US dictates how German and Japanese manufacturers have to build their cars in order to sell them there.
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Japan law will require Apple to allow alternate iPhone app stores
THOSE MEDDLING EU BUREAUCRATS JUST HAVE IT IN FOR US CORPORATIONS!
They can't innovate themselves, so they have to impose draconian and ridiculous…oh wait.
Japan.
Huh.
sorry
