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AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts
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Well, hopefully an EU based company / companies will create a product/application that will compete with the apple feature, or Apple will comply like they do in the Chinese market.
This is prolly Apple just bitching around to fuel the EU hate people like you have. The regulations the EU has are for the most part good and the US would be wise to adopt some of them too.
Wow we are going to miss live translation between as many as 5 major languages. The horror. 🤣
You don´t know why the feature isn´t available. I MIGHT be due to regulations and even then, it´s Apples part to look into a countries regulation BEFORE you plan to release a product.
The EU´s regulations are good!
The DMA actually has a clause that says that anything a regulator THINKS is a problem is a problem. Doesn’t matter if the problem is detailed by the DMA. While the current group may not be as cantankerous as Vestager was, as long as that is stipulated, any future regulator can pull that chain when they feel the EU needs more money.
Childish Apple. These kinds of tactics only make people hate Apple.
It’s all about the fines for the EU. The fines go directly to the EU budget - even the antitrust ones - they’re not imposed to help the little guy, they’re there to help the EU.
Those other manufacturers are not gatekeepers. Once the EU has defined a gatekeeper, that company has to behave differently in the region. And, if those other companies are smart, they will ensure that they sell enough to be profitable in the EU without becoming so wildly successful that they’re a gatekeeper.
If Apple weren’t a gatekeeper there would be no problem. Apple didn’t designate themselves as gatekeeper, so it’s not them screwing EU market consumers.
You could move to the US and save up for a long time. Maybe after 20 years, you'll be able to pay enough lawyers to find out what Apple is actually doing with your voice messages and data.
Or you can wait until the feature complies with European data protection regulations (which it clearly doesn't, otherwise it would be available immediately).
Don't forget: Apple has lied several times when it comes to data protection and the sale of personal data. Macrumors has reported on this.
In any case, I want to know what the company does with my voice recordings.
Thanks to EU we have strong data protection laws.
Because you and me as a simple customer have not the power to get infos from Apple without expensive lawyers.
Gaslighting other users on this forum without any info about why Apple chose not to make this feature available in the EU is clearly the enlightened approach here
So you say it has nothing to do with the GDPR and AI Act as written in the article?
Please explain how Google is offering the equivalent realtime translation feature in their Pixel Buds in the EU.
The EU needs to be scrapped, it's causing more problems than it's fixing.
The power has always been with users and small business. That’s why, in the EU, the vast majority of them, even today, do NOT use Apple devices in the region.
It’s again another example of how overegulation impacts innovation.
Unlikely, they have (almost) an entire continent under their control. Bureaucrats love power.
The few European countries that aren't part of the EU are the ones who are truly independent.
The power always has been in the hands of the consumer. It’s called vote with your $$$.
Google is designated a gatekeeper for Android and still provides their AI-based realtime translation feature in the EU.
Heh… EU based tech company?
I mean, it’s the right way of thinking. They could have combined the collective technical might of all the countries in the region to create a new, better, more EU consumer focused EU phone platform. Designed by EU regulators, it would do all the things they want it to do better than Google and Apple ever could have and could have swept the market. And, if it’s good enough, then that hardware/OS combo could have gained traction around the world drawing billions and billions of dollars into those companies that design/produced the hardware and that generated revenue from the EU App Store. But, as the EU already regulated all the successful tech companies out of the EU (other than Spotify), the likelihood of an EU based company being able to create anything that that works that well is quite low.Incidentally, China doesn’t force Apple to ensure every feature on the iPhone works with all the random non-Apple devices, so releasing it to China is no big deal. This is really just an EU problem created by Vestager and they let it happen!
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I understand that Apple needs more time to comply with the world’s most progressive privacy regulations, but I can’t help wondering how much time Apple is willing to waste. Many European customers who would have bought the AirPods Pro immediately are now holding back, meaning lost revenue for Apple. And Apple should care. After all, the European market is larger than the U.S. in terms of population.
Perhaps Apple should work harder to ensure that new products meet EU requirements from the very start, assuming Apple is truly interested in our money. If they expect European customers to pay premium prices, we should at least be able to expect premium effort behind the scenes to make that possible.