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mygig said:

So can he explain why the iPhone 11 is 50$ cheaper in US and barely cheaper in EU or more specifically, 7€ cheaper in Slovenia?

avon b7 said:

Cook didn't deal with the App Store monopoly issue. He skirted it.

The question is not that Apple offers this or that and users can get content that Apple doesn't offer via a web browser.

The question is that there is no other App Store and Apple is therefore the only one taking a cut, deciding what the cut is and deciding what is allowed and what isn't. On top of that, it is competing in the store with its own apps. The proportion of those apps is irrelevant.

Maybe he had a beer too many but if these are his arguments, they don't hold much water.

foljs said:

firelock said:

Thank you for this article. This explains why there is so much European-produced TV content popping up in Hulu (Das Boot), HBO (Chernobyl), etc. I think EU over-regulation is going to really hamper Internet companies operating there, and ultimately not serve the public interest. The “right to be forgotten” rule for example, while they make exceptions for “public” figures, is very gray in a number of areas and could be used to withhold valuable information from the public. It also places an undue burden on the providers to figure out who can make a legitimate takedown request and who cannot.

As a European, it's certainly in the public interest not to have 100% American shows in the dominating subscription services...

Latko said:

The minimal distinction between Apple and the “evel” data collectors is that Apple collects and sells aggregate, anonymized data.
That is, you as an individual still exist, but only under a cumbersome id (instead of your name) that others may very well relate to your name via usage patterns - even while Apple won’t.
So that distinction is MINIMAL to ZERO, further in the value chain.
So - contrary to what the article suggests - Apple IS collecting data on users collectively and selling TONS of aggeregate data to enable spying purposes.