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Apple Hits Back at EU Law in Court
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In a few years the EU doesn't exist anymore. Because some big country that is paying almost everything is getting de-industrialized and won't pay anymore.
ARM is a UK company. Last time I checked, they’re not part of the EU anymore.
So who should control the product other than the company that produced the product?
The EU is controlled by a bunch of technology challenged clods and clowns with VCR's still flashing 12:00 who think an iPad is a patch that goes over the eye.
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Everything is more expensive in EU because of taxes and cost of selling products in the EU. Why do you think pens/stationery cost several times their normal pricing in the EU? Europeans pay more because they have governments and policies requiring a higher cost of living, that's all.
Also, ARM is 90% Japanese owned.
I might join you on the bench and purchase stock in popcorn companies.
So are your petrol products. Blame that on your legislators, not the companies involved.
Exactly. Because cost of selling is way higher in the EU. Everyone needs higher profits, higher wages in the EU.
That is, of course, a complete exaggeration. But we are proud of our rights as employees and workers; everyone would like to have 30 working days (at least) of holiday, sick payment, Pensions etc. It is not as if these rights fell from the sky; previous generations fought hard for them. In Europe, universal health insurance already existed in the 19th century, something that still does not exist today in the country of Apple and Co.
It would be nice if big media outlets would just admit that all these EU shenanigans are manufactured to create entry into individual lives, to invade privacy, to have full visibility into people’s personal information, all under the guise of “public safety”.
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I'm not sure I see how opening up a device to 3rd party app markets or allowing some earbuds to pop up to sync like Airpods invades someones privacy. Compare this to the basic business models of US companies like Google and Meta and its night and day.
This is also about jacking the price of your product by means of vendor lock-in, per example – the EU went after electrical cooker manufactures some years back because each manufacturer was making their heating elements unique to their own brand and charging £80-90 for a replacement unit when it inevitably failed. The EU forced all the manufactures to comply to a standard specification -"one size fits all'"- deal, now a replacement cooker element cost around £12, Apple is notorious for it's proprietary ram and hard drive regime, I'd love to see the EU go after them for this too.
These rights are great, I am sure any other non EU citizen will love to have them. But they cost money, and they likely slow down progress when the rest of the world struggles with less than 2 weeks of leave a year and frequent overtime.
Thus I can understand the need to close the gap with the rest of the world while still enjoying such luxuries. That does not mean it's fair.
Personally I prefer to have my privacy invaded by EU entities. At least then I have a chance to challenge the "shenanigans" in court.
Why don't the EU just mandate that Apple cannot sell their products at a higher prices than Chinese brands while they are at it. Heck, they should just mandate Apple to sell all their products at half the cost in the US.
The gatekeeper ruling is in part EU revenge on US tech companies for buying up all the leading European tech firms and promptly running them into the ground. Just look at what Microsoft did to Nokia. I'm not sure what Apple did to bring their ire having only a 30% market share in the EU but here we are.
Absolutely. Lawmakers control the law!
I’m pretty much every jurisdiction on Earth. They don’t control the courts though. The technical term for that is bad!!!
It's interesting how someone can go to another person's home and call the homeowner a fool...
The same goes for the US. What do you have that's not made in China, Mexico, India, or Brazil?
I wonder what cost more - the lawyers to argue these cases, or the developers to implement these changes?
Yes, because doing things like complying with ridiculously expensive, overbearing regulations that gives away IP to competitors costs money, and that gets passed on to customers in those regions.
It is the regulator implementing a method of entry. Later on they widen the entry.
And you don't "see how" because they're well practiced in the art of social engineering.
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