I'm pretty sure if Apple were as predictable with their App Store rules they now demand the DMA should be, the DMA wouldn't be that strict.
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Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to European Union at Launch Due to DMA
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ITT many people who think of themselves as "pro-capitalist" but have zero understanding of what that means once it's necessary to ask how to maintain existing capitalist markets when a handful of private firms have grown to have a monopoly on ownership and management of market entry.
Really stupid move by Apple. I can already see the next Samsung Ads, boasting how they have Ai and Apple doesn't here in the EU.
I don't believe the DMA has anything to do with it. This is just Apple execs trying to stick it to the Commission. But I think it's an own goal.
Apple is not a monopoly.
As if Apple still can produce “it just works” products today, which I highly doubt. There will be more fragmentation on features available between major markets. For example: eventually China’s iPhone will not be able to navigate anything outside of China where their own GPS counterpart has no access.
Hopefully everyone remembers this is all Apple’s fault.
They are choosing this course of action
You think Apple doesn't' know that? Again - Apple is a publicly traded company. They are not doing anything out of spite. You may disagree with their reasoning, but I assure you they have significant privacy and security concerns around releasing these features in the EU given the text of the DMA I quoted above.
GREAT! Grow the Android marketshare, furthering the actual dominance that Google has in the EU. That's the way to grow competition!
I don’t think so. Over regulation comes with a price. The big devs are set to capitalize on this at the expense of consumers.
A monopoly in anything iOS iPadOS and macOS related.
But imma stop here for that rabbit hole.
Explain that Android exists and developers who don't want to follow Apple's rules when developing software and users who want to install software from anywhere have a perfectly good option.
In the short term, it won't matter so much I think. People have other things to worry about. And most iPhone users in Europe don't even have a 15 Pro and would not get the Ai features anyways.
It's a rabbit hole only because you're simply wrong on this point. Apple is not a monopoly.
Hopefully, everyone remembers this is the eu commissions fault. As this is rolled out, it’s the EU consumers of iOS that are being hurt.
France their largest company wants to leave the EU and the French government is begging them not to move to the USA.
Let the people celebrate thinking they are winning, soon the EU will be left behind with the way things are going.
McDonalds has a monopoly of anything Big Mac related, but you don't see the EU claiming they have a monopoly of the hamburger market..
It’s Kind of like Sports
Rules change or are tweaked from time to time and everybody has to play by them and how each individual team responds is up to them.
Spitting in the face of the referee, however, rarely yields the result a team is looking for
Rules change or are tweaked from time to time and everybody has to play by them and how each individual team responds is up to them.
Spitting in the face of the referee, however, rarely yields the result a team is looking for
Take it up with *checks notes* the U.S. Department of Justice.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24105363/apple-doj-monopoly-lawsuit
This assumes Apple will actually be ready to roll out this unicorn to any market “this year”.
Yes, so what? Most Europeans do speak English. My Apple devices run their iOSs / macOS in English, simply because distribution, software availability and general support are best by far in English.
That said, I couldn’t care less about those AI “features” (and their exclusion from the EU market).
They have shown many times already, they do act out of spite in regard to this regulation. Think about the Progressive Web App move some time ago.
Anyway, I haven't read the whole thread. Would you be so kind to link to your DMA quote?