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Fred257 said:

Apple is trying to get public pressure on the EU to drop this. IT WONT WORK.  Apple, your lawyers aren’t doing you any favors 

I agree with this, but it’s not the way Apple operates.  They’ve got loads of cashed-up lawyers that have to do something.  They’re forever throwing the proverbial at the wall even when they know they can’t win.  Put simply, they can afford to lose, and they don’t care about doing so.

Apple may be a $3 trillion company but the EU has a $19 trillion GDP and represents 448 million people.  They’re one of the few government entities that can afford to take on Apple and are willing to do it.

i view that as preferable to politicians bending over every time they get a call from Tim Cook or his posse of lobbyists.

temperor said:

Fine buy an Android. 

Nah, it’s not a big enough deal, to me anyway.  I couldn’t give two rats about AI.  If Apple wanted to withhold it in my country I’d probably be happy about it.  Others, certainly, will be annoyed.  I stand by my comment that it’s Apple being a spiteful little beach.

This is just Apple being spiteful.  A temper tantrum, and an attempt to stop DMA-like policies from spreading to other countries’ markets, which there are already signs of it happening.  I support the EU mostly.  We’d still have Lightning if it wasn’t for them.

And Phil, I’m happy to make the judgement call on what I deem safe to install on my devices, thank you.  And I accept the consequences.  It’s not like the App Store hasn’t had its share of security threats and dodgy apps.

Because I hold my MacBook Pro in the air single-handedly during use…

  

To be honest, I find having to separately delete messages on Macs logged into iCloud somewhat irritating.  It’s not really synchronisation like virtually everything else in iCloud.  Occasionally it can be useful, but mostly I wish it behaved like true synchronisation.

No sympathy for this guy though.