Apple delaying cool new features in a strict, heavily-regulated market where the regulators are unfriendly towards the company and they keep saying they'll fine Apple? I don't think anyone could have seen this coming. 😔
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Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to European Union at Launch Due to DMA
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So you did your own little analysis here and came to a conclusion that Apple is just being spiteful. Rather than consider that this may actually open up the AI to unpredictable scenarios that your or I aren't aware of because we don't have the full story...
This shouldn't be much of an issue, because when the data is handled on the device and you get a prompt asking for the data Siri/Apple Intelengence may use it should be fine. And this should be standard for a privacy focused company, wouldn't it?
There’s upsides and downsides to legislation like the DMA.
Unfortunately this is a downside for DMA fans.
Unfortunately this is a downside for DMA fans.
The EU has every right to create and enforce laws to protect its citizens, including in technology and AI. There are plenty of EU companies operating in the US and following local regulations without anyone whining about it.
Well I’m angry and I’m a citizen of the EU. Time to move to the UK!
Good thing you guys have 3rd party app stores 🙄
Apple today said that European customers will not get access to the Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing features that are coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac this September due to regulatory issues related to the Digital Markets Act.
In a statement to Financial Times, Apple said that there will be a delay as it works to figure out how to make the new functionality compatible with the European Union's competition rules.
Apple Intelligence includes a wide range of additions that overhaul everything from Siri to apps, while iPhone Mirroring is a feature that allows the iPhone to be controlled on a connected Mac. SharePlay Screen Sharing lets users take control of another person's screen while using the SharePlay feature, with the aim of providing assistance.
Some of the Siri-related Apple Intelligence capabilities will not be launching until 2025, but Genmoji, Image Playground, Writing Tools, and many new in-app capabilities are set to be available starting in September, and these are what iPhone, iPad, and Mac users in the European Union will miss out on. It is not clear how long it will take Apple to expand this features to the EU, nor what changes Apple might have to make to introduce them under the DMA.
Apple's warning comes as the European Commission prepares to make a ruling on whether prior changes to allow for app marketplaces meet the terms of the DMA. Regulators have said that there are "very serious" issues with Apple's implementation, likely related to the Core Technology Fee that Apple is charging.
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The simple solution here was just allowing application downloads from the web.
The DMA went way too far.
Targeting companies with arbitrary gatekeeper definitions isn’t protecting. One law, apply to all. The EU has set the precedent, no going back. Companies will consider EU high risk and will not roll out any features that may result in scrutiny.
The technical hurtles to overcome some EU countries regulations/rules with encryption usage by consumers/enterprises makes the EU DMA a cakewalk. A lot of the world is far more restrictive with how computing gets implemented, used.
But now you're seeing the problem...who gets to decide how these things should or should not work? Apple or Margrethe Vestager and the EU Commissioners?
This is the start of the fragmentation that I and many other Apple users were trying to avoid by not using Android. And now you all want the company and the OS to be fragmented among different countries and different laws, asking Apple to follow the wholly arbitrary "spirit of the law."
It is all nonsense. The DMA is a mess, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences.
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They have every right to protect us, but an iPhone controlled by a Mac cursor won’t overthrow the government anytime soon. It’s not dangerous so it’s not to protect us.
You mean like Spotify? Who is constantly complaining to the US about its laws?
Who got it? Who is going to lose more with that decision is Apple. No apple intelligence no sale...
I’m saying if Apple keeps the devices less capable artificially, they are only shooting themselves in the foot, because Samsung & Co. won’t limit their devices in that way.
It is really weird, how many people are happy with the fact that a company can tell you what you can do with a device you bought and now own.
How dear they protect EU citizens by creating a fair and safe environment for technological advancement! 🙄
But there is already the TeamViewer app on iOS, is there not?
Don’t worry EU AI regulation will take care of it. EU will finish google and Microsoft Ai.
The European Union makes sure that I can decide what I can do with my device, Apple is restricting it
Beyond weird
Nonsensical honestly
Stockholm Syndrome alive and well in Apple land apparently
EU companies are whining more than any other companies, for the opposite reason...that's how this whole mess started.
I am not taking a stance, but I think giving 3P the same access to siri might actually be a good thing (of course with user consent).
In this day and age, only Apple and probably Google and Huawei can access all your personal info for a useful personal ai. That really could hurt the capabilities of other companies to compete with potentially superior models or features
If Apple fails to deliver the best ai product, we would stuck with bad personal ai for a long time