mrochester

9secondkox2 said:

avon b7 said:

9secondkox2 said:

If this doesn’t show just how evil and overreaching the eu is, Nothing will. 

If something is the best, EU VIEWS IT AS ANTICOMPETITIVE. if everyone wants your stuff, because you’re that good, prepare to pay ridiculous fines and get holes poked in your business to make you not so good anymore. 

Another attack on an American company. 

Sickening. 

Take a look for yourself... 

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5681

Where is the overreach if an organisation opens an investigation to see if a company is breaking antitrust legislation and is providing the grounds for it?

Should companies be allowed to go unchecked if their business practices might mean they are abusing dominant position, harming competition and stifling innovation? 

bruh. They make screens and screen protectors. They’re really good. 

That’s it. There is no anticompetitive bent. They simply make great stuff. 

The fact the eu has decided to launch a witch hunt is s as steady showing the overreach. We saw them start this with Apple rtc. With disastrous extortionate results. 

What are they going to do? There is nothing they can change. What, make their product less good, give up supplying screens to OEMs? There is nowhere to go here. 

This is the problem with the EU today. Just looking for ways to hurt American companies and get rich doing it. Again, sickening.  

I can see a tariff or something. If you really want it, pay more. It’s also more honest. But to pretend something is wrong in order to impose fines through the nose of ridiculous. 

tht said:

Right now, in June 2022, it looks like the release of Web Push in 2023 will be good for users and developers.

Hopefully Apple will have a flag to turn off Push notifications from web apps and web sites.   

I've taken quite the dim view of these "pro competition, pro business, pro consumer" rationales. GDPR pop-up notices are like a modern rendition of ActiveX pop-ups, and it didn't do anything to actually protect people. This Web Push stuff sounds like it is going to amp up notification marketing by increasing the surface area of who and what can send a push notification by orders of magnitude. Eventually a few "bad" players will blow up all the goodness and just trash everything. Like, all it takes is one "web app" to mess up your phone or PC and you will have to go through some cleaning activity.

Every single communications medium we have eventually just turns to shit. My mail box is 99% advertisements, and probably 99.999% by weight. Just the thought of the gas and diesel used to deliver that shit pisses me off. My landline phone is nothing but telemarketing and basically shit calls. My cell phone is getting there and I really should just turn on the flag to only allow my contacts to ring the phone. Email? Our email apps have the work of multiple PhDs to filter that stuff out, on multiple nodes of an email's path to your input. Text messaging? I think text messaging costing money way back when actually delayed the inevitable, especially now that regulators want "compatibility".

GeorgeBMac said:

mrochester said:

danox said:

mrochester said:

The silly thing with these new laptops is we’ve gone from 4 universal ports that will do anything to 3 universal ports and 2 ports that can only do one thing, so technically a less flexible machine now. 

Also, where’s the outcry about Apple using a proprietary charging port? 

So they never should given up on FireWire better faster and more versatile, and more importantly a superior in house solution not dependent upon tech from outside patent trolls…..

Huh?  USBC and Thunderbolt are more flexible than HDMI and SD card readers. 

... unless you need HDMI or an SD slot.

So why does it have to be 'either / or'?