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Exactly it’s the euro trash wanting their hand out. Nothing more. They will fine Apple a couple billion then that will be that. God if you don’t want an Apple iPhone quit whining and go buy whatever version of Samsung/Android that pleases you. I have yet to ever go to a Samsung rumor site to stir crap up. I do not like Samsung. Why would I go to one of their many rumor sites.
It doesn't appear you understand the difference between revenue and profit. Apple's revenue on the App Store is 30%. Profit is the amount of money remaining after maintaining data centers, paying for bandwidth, paying humans, and all the other costs to run the App Store. I don't believe we know the actual profit, but I guarantee you it is no where near 30%. Your lack of understanding such a simple concept makes your opinions difficult to take seriously.
Why not?
Sigh. If you bothered to try to what I wrote understand you'd note I said profit margin, which, for your information is: (revenue-expenses)/revenue. Perhaps I should have included net and not assume, since it was so low, people would know I wasn'y talking about gross or operating. If you want to disagree with me, fine, but at least respond to what I wrote rather than launching a personal attack.
That data is skewed Android virtually runs on everything from infotainment systems in cars to embedded devices.
Nope, plenty third-party stores exist. Back order the screen myself and bring in the device to a third party repair store and guess what no lines to stand in.
That's why I am dumping macOS and getting into Linux. Don't want the IOS level of control on macOS.
It's not.
That's an assumption. I went on the website doesn't say how they collected that data.
It's just one click away (in their FAQ).
So, they're proposing substantial changes for iPhones but not iPads then? That's odd. The iPad is a mobile computing device with a display screen with touch input, but it's not pocket-sized.
Perhaps, but I believe that the GDPR was also a regulatory tool intended to support European firms at the expense of American tech firms. Funny thing about regulation is that enforcement of regulations is almost inherently subjective. Smaller European firms are likely to get more of a pass re: GDPR compliance than American firms. There’s also the penalties for data leaks, and it’s not clear whether the law has any allowances for zero day vulnerabilities. There’s also the matter of regulatory capture.
In general, firms can’t continue to arbitrarily buy up competitors, materials, or services anyway. It’s the law of supply and demand, eventually prices increase as demand increase and the supply remains the same or even decreases. No one firm could, without the active (albeit perhaps covert) support of government, buy up a whole sector of the economy or the whole economy itself. As this firm’s empire rises, sellers would naturally demand more money from them, unless the government enforces price caps that benefit the firm. And as profit grows, entrepreneurs and potential competitor firms would see those huge profits and get into the market to compete with them, unless government actively restricts them or supports the monopoly firm through subsidy.
This is a strawman. Businesses have been regulated in this country for hundreds of years and nobody said any acquisitions the Apple had were illegal.
OK.
Really, the first section was a response to the grandparent comment as opposed to the parent comment, I just felt like it made more sense as an elaboration of the parent comment. It doesn’t particularly make sense without the content of the grandparent comment.
I really wasn't sure how to comment on the second section, because it seems like a whataboutism. I'm for letting the market determine who the better product belongs to, not the government. It's not like there is not any competition to Apple.
I don’t have hard data, no, but I did see the Wikipedia list of GDPR fees, and, of the ones reported there, it seemed like European firms typically paid less than what an American firm would pay for an equivalent data breach. In general, though, regulations tend to strongly favor the regulated (after all, they don’t get enough steam to get passed without a champion, and the champion often comes from the regulated industry seeking its self interest, they’re the ones who care the most after all), and the EU (and its constituent nations) has exhibited protectionist behaviors towards European firms in the tech space (such as French newspapers against Google News). So while I don’t have hard data about the GDPR or enforcement, I’d be legitimately surprised if there weren’t some protectionist elements somewhere in its articles or in the courts’ interpretations of its provisions. It’s less a comment about the specifics of the GDPR itself and more about the general process that results in regulations, especially grand, sweeping ones.
Sorry it seemed that way. I actually agree with you, so I’m surprised you interpreted it so differently than what I meant. I guess I could be a little more clear in my writing, I definitely don’t do it as much as I used to.
