GREAT! Then buy OnePlus and Samsung and leave Apple and those of us who like Apple alone.
See how the market works? In fact, Samsung already has a much larger marketshare than Apple in the EU.
The market is working as it should.
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Apple Gets EU Warning to Open iOS to Third-Party Connected Devices
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GREAT! Then buy OnePlus and Samsung and leave Apple and those of us who like Apple alone.
See how the market works? In fact, Samsung already has a much larger marketshare than Apple in the EU.
The market is working as it should.
But above you were arguing to me that Apple could be forced to develop software for its competitors. So which is it?
Maybe teens and even grown ups bullying each other because of iMessage and the general view that having an iPhone implies you have a higher social status? I mean case manufacturers intentionally develop cases with a cutout around the apple logo...
Apple has multi-billion dollar contracts with the parties mentioned, therefore they're an oligopoly - they will be attacking each other in front of the general public.
Weakening Apple will only be bad for Apple - it will be good for everyone else.
Everyone now wants to find Apple guilty of being successful. Back in the 90's when Apple was struggling to survive, nobody cared, except those who would criticize Apple for being a failure.
Now everyone wants a piece of a pie they never worked for to build.
The market is not working as it should. You're implying everyone has fair conditions which it doesn't.
Apple is getting what it’s earned. Their AppStore greed has caused a world of hurt on them. Because they wouldn’t let go of their IAP fees, and anti-steering rules, now they have to open up their OS more and more. So so so many commentators warned them that if they kept on their path of AppStore greed that legislation would come and dictate how they run their business.
Ummm...you might want to check that again. The App store HAS been designated a gatekeeper. As has IOS.
Apple is not facing regulator action in the US. They are facing a lawsuit from the DOJ. If you don't understand the difference, perhaps you should read up on it. And, btw, the DOJ will lose the case badly.
No they aren't. Not at all. They may be being asked to provide a public API but that is not open sourcing the entire OS.
This isn't about 'EU companies not liking something'. It's about the EU as a market regulator. Market regulators don't respond to inbalances by launching their own competing products. That would be like saying that the FAA's response to Boeing's non-compliance should be to set up their own aircraft manufacturing company.
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Disagree with just about every point. Maybe though the EU would reimplement allowing Apple to be the anticompetitive bully if their citizens voted them out - that could only happen if AAPL pulls out of the EU market first. I think the EU is doing what is best for consumers. All these people that defend Apple should be AAPL shareholders. Otherwise, AAPL is anticompetitive and not good for consumers. The EU has successfully ensured many small and medium businesses stay in business by stopping massive anticompetitive companies don’t have access to anticompetitive/monopolistic properties.
Please show me your data supporting this assertion. (Hint, you don't have any data supporting this assertion).
Here's my data: Apple customer satisfaction surveys. Look them up.
You're conflating the past and the future... this is a slippery slope argument
First Monopolies became illegal...
Then Duopolies became illegal
Now Oligopolies is the new trend..
What's next? Anyone with a foot on the market will become illegal?
Then Duopolies became illegal
Now Oligopolies is the new trend..
What's next? Anyone with a foot on the market will become illegal?
That is not correct because iOS already does that.
Fitbit smartwatches have been able to get notifications and even answer calls on device for years.
So this has to be much deeper than that.
Market ecomonics functions under the idea that you and I can have radically different ideas about what our individual interests are. Your comment suggests that YOUR interest is universal, and that you know better than I do what is in my interest. This is what underlies the idea that Government needs to protect consumers.
But it's a false idea. YOU don't know what my interest is better than I do. And when you try to simply implement YOUR interest in my stead, you're operating as an authoritarian.
You don't know what I want.
Indeed. I also get call notifications on my Wahoo Element Bolt. It must a silly Garmin thing why Garmin cannot do it.
These surveys don't prove anything, especially since this is not a political cause. They are also liable to being manipulated. This is a non-argument.
In Samsung’s case, they switched to a new watchOS that wasn’t compatible not Apple.
People have different opinions on what is in their best interest. We may not agree with them, but their opinion is the same as our opinion in terms of validity.
Of course they do complying with AU rules and regulations cost them money and Apple is going to charge the cost of compliant. No one is getting that two year warranty for free. It’s baked in the price of every device every user buys whether or not they use it in the end it’s simply good business sense, and basic economics.
It will be interesting to see what happens when people buy iPhones outside of the EU and then discover that some of the features that work outside the EU may not work in the EU when you set the country location to that area you’ll get the features of that area, no light no doubt, but you won’t get features that aren’t in that area, as I understand how it works now.
In addition, if you bought the phone outside of the US your warranty rights under EU law don’t apply because the seller was not Apple Europe but our location outside of the EU and Apple could reasonably require you to take the phone back to the country of origin.
Apple currently has a worldwide warranty for items that do not plug-in so an iPhone has a worldwide warranty as a Mac, but they only need to honor the one year warranty and not the two year.
EU citizens have the power to vote with their wallets. EU citizens have actually shown that they overwhelmingly prefer Android-based smartphones to iPhone. Apple only holds about 25% marketshare.
How is this not achieving the end you're hoping for already?