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Surprise! Apple thinking the EU was going to kowtow to them because "Muh sucurity and muh privacy!" They need to fix their app store situation and anti competitive practices asap before it get worse.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/24/app...e-in-breach-eu-tech-rules-regulators-say.html

 

[Dacvak]

Thank god we have the EU leading the technological charge on these issues. Lord knows we can't get anything done over here in America.

 

[IDKFA]

Thank god we have the EU leading the technological charge on these issues. Lord knows we can't get anything done over here in America.

Aren't Apple currently being sued buy the US government?

 

[SJRB]

 

[ScHlAuChi]

That image has a pretty simple but wrong message!

1. If America is so innovative, why is Apple so scared about competition? When was the last time Apple truly innovated?
2. China has filed 25% more patents than the US in 2023 and that has been going on for years.
3. Europe has tons of innovation, but you dont hear much about it, because unlike the US, innovation mainly orginates in smaller often family lead companies that arent on the stock market - so called hidden champions.
So innovation happens silently as those companies dont need to do brag to boost a share price.
Take AI image generation - it is all based on LatentDiffusion - an innovation by a small university from Munich and not by BigTech.

As for Apple - play stupid games, win stupid prices!

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Not really a bad thing, it's kind of working out for now.

 

[M1chl]

You can't be this delusional. Besides EU forced Apple to actually innovate, even tho I am not sure you can call USB-C an innovation in this day and age, but its certainly better than old ass USB 2 with different plug

 

[Drew1440]

Thank god we have the EU leading the technological charge on these issues. Lord knows we can't get anything done over here in America.

Yes, I just love having cookie and privacy polices popping up every time I visit a webpage.

 

[winjer]

Yes, I just love having cookie and privacy polices popping up every time I visit a webpage.

That did not happen because of the EU. But because of malicious compliance from so many sites.
The idea was to have the user choose whether to be spied on by companies or not. Which is a very good idea, as it protects users.
So although some companies will have a simple question regarding cookies, a simple yes or no.
Other companies will give an easy way to accept all cookies, but make it extremely hard to reject them by forcing the user to go through a ton of "no cookies" options.
This is not an issue with the EU. This is an issue with the companies that have no respect for the user.

 

[winjer]

Although there is some truth to this, I find it curious to see something like this on an Apple thread.
Apple is a company that has very rarely innovated. Most often, they just copy what other people are doing.

 

[Hudo]

Well, it's not bad that there's at least one entity out there telling mega corps to fuck off from time to time.

 

[kikkis]

Getting fined 10% of global revenue for not allowing 3rd party app stores is like getting death penalty for torrenting porn.

More to the point, I don't understand the point of this regulation. I have not spent even ten dollars on app store so i am not sure what kind software business that 30% cut is preventing. They should apply same rule to sony and Microsoft and i might even save some money.