On the other, other hand, Tesla has been using the Courts to great effect in China...
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It is unfortunate that the definition of "tech company", to many fanatics, is a company that only provides goods and services to end consumers. There is a whole litany of b2b businesses that are essential to that end product that nobody ever sees. Heck, there are probably a non-zero number of "EU produces nothing" knuckleheads currently posting this thread while sitting in the seat of an Airbus Jet or a Siemens or Bombardier subway car right now.
And now we’re stuck with USB-C forever because no one is going to develop a better port if it can’t be used in the EU.
So they did not, please show the evidence when you make statements like that.
^^^^ This - it is all totally unnecessary chaos, based on the lies by a fat old orange bloke who can't even remember his own deals, and didn't even write the art of the deal. It is the misrepresentations, bullying, and total lack of understanding regarding the topics he and those around him and those that support him (and Elon Musk) that annoys us. We are always willing to listen to a sensible argument but not to people who lie.
It was, Sony themselves put it down to the challenging economic environment such as high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates. Which makes sense as when you look at the USD vs EUR it is not a pretty sight. -9.63% since inauguration day and falling. So everything pegged against the dollar has become more expensive to trade in other forex countries. Roughly matching the price differences that Sony is applying. And it's not over yet.
You are the one who made the general statement of EU making stupid rules. Im fully aware of USBC development and the Apple link which makes it even more off topic and greedy why they hung on to lightning for almost a decade after on certain devices when the rest of the market adopted (their own as you say) standard. Please prove that Apple would have implemented USBC into iPhone on their own accord so soon after the EU ruling, if there was no ruling or warnings by the EU for the years prior. That rule wasn't stupid as you claimed their rules are. Thats pretty much on topic.
It’s obviously because of the EU. Apple creates a product that many europeans like as it is, and now the EU commissioners decide they know what we need better than us… it’s a never ending story with the EU, not just with this topic, that makes europeans’ life more inconvenient and more expensive everyday.
EU is planning tariffs to USA. It maybe towards the tech industries services as EU has a trade deficit toward USA in terms of services. EU only applies the same logic of president Trump.
The “greedy” conspiracy with Lightning doesn’t make any financial sense. If USB-C was so important to customers, they would have changed before, because cable sales and lightning royalties are peanuts compared to iPhone sales. The move to USB-C probably resulted in more annoyed than happy customers.
Stupid according to who? Our electives have voted, you know its called representative democracy. Should I take it you think all people in EU are stupid?
I'm not sure if you're referring to the current US Administration or the EU commission?
...and I believe the photolithography machines used for creating Apple chips.
Quite the oxymoron there...not sure I would use the first to describe the second.
Yep. And it’s been reported Apple was making “couch cushion change” levels of money from lightening licensing. I suspect they more than made up for it with people buying a bunch of new overpriced USB-C cables in Apple stores. The idea they’d make iPhones significantly worse for spare change is laughable.
Being a democracy (although the EU commission election is not very democratic) is not a guarantee against taking stupid decisions (usually we rightly hear the same about the US). And just saying “companies must accept our rules” when the EU takes abusive measures is missing the forest for the trees. Specially when it affects ourselves…
You must have ESP for real then. 😏
You funny! Seriously. It is about the money. The laws, the fines, the threats, it is all about money. EU, US, etc. it does not matter. Civil laws with resulting fines are mostly designed to extract money from people or corporations. Fines just reinforce the money grab. The money collected does not go to the people that are supposedly protected, or harmed, in violation of the law.
Like almost everything else Apple does, their reluctance to moving away from Lightning has a lot more to do with locking their users into their "ecosystem" via third-party accessories than it does with getting licensing fees from third party device sales. Apple's entire product and service offering is designed to lock-in their customers as tightly as possible.
Case in point.
Obviously, all companies want revenue. But thankfully, specially in the customer tech industry, revenue is closely linked to customer satisfaction. What I meant with “lightning greed conspiracy” is that some people believe that Apple stuck with lightning because of royalties, even if customers wanted USB-C… when, if that was really the case, money lost on iPhone sales would greatly exceed lightning royalties.
Assuming Billy Bob lives in the EU, some of that money may at least go towards Billy Bob's medical expenses.
