Curiouserandcurious

I suspect this is just a platform fork for Apple. They have the scale and the revenues to do it. So why not just follow the Microsoft compliance tradition and essentially break your product for EMEA. Don’t break it so bad that you lose all your customers who are well locked in, but break it badly enough that there’s a very partial App Store, that there is no payment stack, that there is a messaging variant with limited features. For this season anyway, reduce functionality enough to balance still serving users, but create a distinctly different experience that is limited. Maybe everything comes later to Europe as well.  While you’re doing this, your development team gets to explore potential accommodations, and think about future architecture should the rest of the world follow along. Maybe you can lose 10 to 20% of market, but that doesn’t kill your market.  Then wait and see what North America does. I’m just not sure that Tim Cook is agile enough to execute a strategy like that, otherwise I would assume that is what is coming. 

george kaplan said:

I misunderstood the headline—I thought it was dating app where the couple went halves on splitting the bill at dinner.

Ah, wouldn’t it be ironic if these shenanigans came to redefine what the expression “going dutch” means?

I wasn’t sure I bought the Microsoft influence in this, but this is totally a Microsoft shill in my book. What a sham. 

What is the headline picture connected to this article?  Some type of haptic module?  

Bandai should combine this with a tamagotchi. It’d be a hit.  Like a digital support animal.