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  • EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region

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    avon b7 said:
    temperor said:
    PS: the solution is simpel, and it will het the EU where it hits hard, just make a US Apple ID, all will work and all the revenue you spent will benefit the US government as taxes will land in the US . Look who is laughing now.
    That kind of thinking went out the window a very long time ago. 

    Back when books were mostly on paper I would buy plenty of English language content direct from Amazon US. Even with shipping it was cheaper than buying the same imported content locally. 

    As the business grew, it popped up on the EU radar and, poof, the loophole was gone. An EU directive placed obligatory, country-of-origin sales tax on all transactions via cards based in the EU.

    Size matters, as Apple is learning, but it was good while it lasted. Apple should feel the same. 
    You just need a US payment method, not hard to come by ;-) Is the only way you can pay for apps/services if you have a US Apple ID
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  • EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region

    temperortemperor
    PS: the solution is simpel, and it will het the EU where it hits hard, just make a US Apple ID, all will work and all the revenue you spent will benefit the US government as taxes will land in the US . Look who is laughing now.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region

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    blitz1 said:
    Point taken. Nice to see that the EC stays sharp as a knife against companies taking competition laws lightly.

    if Apple won’t make Apple Intelligence aka OpenAI with an Apple layer, then users can still do without the layer

    Can you explain, because Apple Intelligence doesn’t equal ChatGPT integration …
    They trained their models to be capable to run on device to do very specific tasks, that costed a lot of money to create in the first place, they should give that all away + the users privacy as it is powerful in the personal space, no other LLM in the cloud has offered today? Read their blogpost at https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models … Apple Intelligence in Personal Context, the ChatGPT is for world knowledge questions …
    I see a lot of people assume all AI is the same, here AI will work with your personal context. Just like Windows recall as soon that it was proven that content was accessible to anyone Microsoft postponed the release for obvious reasons, and if they want to make that secure, by the same logic they cannot release it in the EU …
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  • EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region

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    So much uninformed opinions. Apple’s statement is pretty clear, they love to bring the feature to the EU, but are investigating if that is possible and if that would be compliant with the DMA. It’s not that it needs to work on windows or Android, but the fact that they need to potentially open up the A.I semantic database with all your your privacy related content to third parties out of their control and that could potentially endanger users security and privacy.

    Just to be clear sharing location is something completely different than sharing your complete life … not so long ago MS had to experience this with WIndows Recall, ones smart people found out that database could be used by any local users, MS had to retracted and postpone Windows Recall … due to privacy and security, now think in that context, would you be happy to share that kind of dynamite with a third party apps tore …

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  • Apple Intelligence & iPhone mirroring aren't coming to EU because of the DMA

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    avon b7 said:

    The DMA/DSA were absolutely necessary. 

    They are the first attempts at tackling a major problem: the ever increasing dependence of everyday life on digital platforms and the ever increasing abuse by those platforms on everyday life through using dominance to shore up the barriers of entry and stifle competition. 

    They will change over time to tackle the situation as it develops. 

    Informing people would be an excellent option and might have been enough to soften the extent of the blow but that should have been offered by Apple as a preemptive solution. It's too late for that now. 

    iPhone NFC accessbshould never have been limited to Apple. Anti-steering should never have existed. One app store with one company controlling commissions should never have happened. Idem Wallets, WebKit obligations etc. 

    All this in a duopoly platform situation. 

    Feathers will be ruffled because Apple is now choosing the bumpy road and dragging its feet on compliance. It probably won't end well but its Apple’s decision. 

    And perhaps mostly importantly, it isn't an Apple only directive. 

    The DSA/DMA will likely be the models for legislation elsewhere (possibly Including the US). 


    What abuse??!!! Most of the App Store apps over payments only outside of the store. Remember iTunes, it’s been surpassed by Spotify, most Spotify users pay outside the AppStore … without the App Store Spotify would have never existed and that is just one example …

    In the mean time FB, Instagram (also FB), WhatsApp (also FB), X, … and so on, they abuse you, they damage mental health, that is the real problem. It’s like convicting car manufactures if users are speeding and killing someone … Apple gave us wonderful tools, many are very useful but unfortunately there are also dark sides to this, and those where never addressed, and the DMA will not address them either, on the contrary you will see App stores that will thrive on rotten ethics, thanks to the DMA 
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