anonymouse

I'll stick with a physical driver's license, thank you. I mean, do you really want to hand your phone to a LEO telling them to go ahead and look at it?

dewme said:

... We are so screwed if this is considered a priority.

You mean like annexing Greenland? Which Ken Howery has already been appointed to handle. 🤣

Trump is an idiot savant con man, but otherwise dumb as dirt.

The real problem is the colossal amount of money that will be wasted on this nonsense.

avon b7 said:

IG-apple_vienna said:

I am a citizen of the EU - but I don't want to be "Saved" by the guys from Brussels

I can decide for myself, which Browser I want to use - or which streaming platform I want to listen to 

The whole DMA is just kind of useless - other than to charge foreign Tech some "tech-tax" - and to control the Narrative in the EU.

You aren't being saved. Your rights are being protected. Your choice to use (or not) what those protections bring is entirely up to you.

It is ironic that you mention browser choice when it was Apple that took the choice away from you with the obligatory use of WebKit, basically converting your 'browser' into a 'front end' for Apple's web engine.

The DSA/DMA were absolutely necessary. You may argue about the finer points of both but as solutions they are essential. 

I can guarantee you that other regions will be taking them as models for their own efforts. That includes the US BTW. 

What complete nonsense, as usual from you. Let's just ignore any of the reasons why, for example, developers have been required to use WebKit. Well, ok, let's not completely ignore that, it's for privacy and security. But let's skip on to this nonsense about how EU regulators are protecting rights....

They don't care about individual rights (like privacy and security) what they care about are a) running a shakedown racket (just like you know who) and b) crippling American tech companies, not to protect individual rights (which most member states trample on a daily basis) but purely for the purpose of siphoning cash out of American tech companies, and propping up and increasing revenues to EU companies. That's it period.

All this nonsense about protecting rights is just that, nonsense. I don't know if you are so clueless that you believe the things you say, or if you are just a mouthpiece for one or more of the EU companies who stand to benefit from the EU's protection racket, but your posts are so entirely counterfactual in their whole as to make one sure it's one or the other. And, sure, other countries are "learning"; just look at the shakedown going on in Indonesia right now. But, learning from what is little different from an organized crime scheme doesn't really benefit anyone but those whose pockets the money goes into.

SmittyW said:

anonymouse said:

Given the issues that Apple has had with iPhone imaging and Apple Watch metrics working correctly for people of color, one could argue that Apple needs a lot more DEI, not less.

I believe your quarrel is with physics, which is notoriously resistant to DEI influence. More work needs to be done here, physics can't keep getting away with this!

Perhaps, if Apple had more people of color working on these teams, they'd have become aware of the issues before releasing devices and software that have the issues. So, while you'd like to blame "physics", it still seems obvious that the problems occurring in released devices and software are because Apple needs more DEI so that they become aware of issues and "physics" doesn't "get away" with it.