bshank

crowley said:

bshank said:

Small businesses in Europe may be upset that they have a hard time advertising and connecting with customers. Shouldn’t help out small businesses in Europe. I guess that’s why the EU likes to tax our companies

When was the last time you saw a useful ad on Facebook?  It’s all junk.

I agree personally. Sometimes I get an interesting ad served for a new product. I would say that the negatives far outweigh the positives with Facebook for sure. But a lot of small businesses do depend on the marketing tools
Facebook has created. I heard some saying this could be tested by FB to turn off their services for a week and that the EU would likely hear about it from small businesses. Not sure the specific landscape in Europe, but this is one angle that could amount to a legitimate issue.

crowley said:

hmlongco said:

Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?

There's this option, which may be of interest: (29) How to make a digital business card for your Apple Wallet | LinkedIn

I agree, it'd be quite cool to NFC your contact card over.  Though it might cause some concern given that it's the same mechanism to transfer money.

There has long been an option to create a business card that can be stored in Apple wallet and shared many ways. This has been true almost since Apple first released Apple
Wallet. NFC is not necessary to share a business card made this way. Is that what Europe wants Apple to open up NFC for?

Small businesses in Europe may be upset that they have a hard time advertising and connecting with customers. Shouldn’t help out small businesses in Europe. I guess that’s why the EU likes to tax our companies

Daniel Ek seems to be leading the charge for controversial platforms. Maybe Spotify can do social media and not blame Apple
for all of the problems they have trying to build a one trick pony business. 

crowley said:

Dang it, sure would be nice to see one of these outside the US

Maybe if the EU stops threatening to litigate and make up new taxes to target Apple all of the time you might see a nice deal like this.